Donna Morrissey comes home to Newfoundland
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Donna Morrissey comes home to Newfoundland

B1IntermediateSeptember 26, 202626 min

Acclaimed author Donna Morrissey is once again a resident of The Beaches, a small community in White Bay, Newfoundland. We meet up with her at her summer home, to hear about her new memoir that reflects on her father, the caretaking adult kids do for their parents, and the pull of this wild, beautiful place.

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This is a CBC Podcast. Here, okay, I'm gonna put her on the leash because she's, uh... the smell... she's in heaven here, right? Everything is smelled. Cod's head, Cod's tail, fish,

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squid, everything is all from the war thrown over the... over the beach rocks, right? What's her name? Bazzie. Yeah, yeah, this is a dog's paradise. Fish bones, guts, it's good.

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Lindsey Bird here. This is Atlantic Place, and this place honestly doesn't smell like fish guts. I mean, maybe to a dog, but for humans, it's just super fresh air and the ocean is like a foot or two away.

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