he looked very Canadian, i thought

my grandmother

liked to argue,

she was what people used

to call a pistol.

she liked to take the other side

of everything,

whether politics

or religion.

she was the kind of person

that would

try to order lamb

at a roadside diner.

she loved

Canada

where she grew up and when

i mentioned once

that i thought Lorne Greene

from Bonanza,

looked Canadian,

she said, what do you mean

by that?

why would you say something

like that?

i was only eleven,

but she was somehow

offended by my

benign observation.