After hanging out on the streets for almost 2 years, getting in lots of trouble, I found The crazy lady who used to live next door on Campbell Avenue. Remember, we sort of had our first date when I was 13 and she was married (Husband split when he realized how nuts she was) and …
Our family was forced to move from the courts, to Campbell Avenue somewhere around 1975, I remember getting cable, and staying up to watch the first SNL show (Oct. 11, 1075). The abuse never stopped here, although more about beating me up, than anyone else. Had a family move in downstairs shortly thereafter, and was …
I attended this program after my probation officer recommended it to me. We did hands-on projects around the city of St. John’s. We did basic electrical, masonry and carpentry. We would do in those programs in our building on O’Leary Avenue as well as different city-owned properties in the city. At one point we actually …
Around the age of 12-14, I basically lived on the streets, hanging around the Queen’s Road area. Did many things to survive, including a bunch of B & E’s. I left my house because I wasn’t going to school, and my old man was on his last few years of being an asshole. Went hungry …
When I was training for my first-year carpentry with “The New Start Project”, we were doing a job at The Nineteenth Hole at Pippy Park, we were in need of a specific tool that we didn’t have, so we dropped by Mount Cashel to borrow one. When we entered the workshop through a side door …
My dad drank and drove almost every day unless he was so fall down drunk to do so. He would pick us up inebriated, and my mom just grabbed us kids and hopped into the car with him driving. I can recall this happening so often, it was the norm. One time, after we stayed …
Back at Keegan Court, I believe I was around 6 years old. Had a lot of friends at my Birthday Party. My good buddies (Doug and Johnnie Gosse) decided that they should give me the bumps. Their idea of the bumps, was to sit me at the top of the stairs, and grab my legs …