In 2007, I inherited my grandmother’s writing desk. Not the big rolltop one that stood in the corner of her living room on a leafy Halifax street — years before, that heirloom had been deemed too valuable for a young girl and was instead earmarked for my eldest uncle. No matter. This new desk of mine had always struck me as immeasurably more wonderful…
Margaret E. Schotte
Margaret E. Schotte is a history professor at York University. Her Dutch grandfather was born in a windmill.