Field Notes

• ”Driving Lessons”
• ”High School Confidential”
• ”My Doomed Voyage”

Columns

• Imaginings: “It’s a Smallwood, After All”
• You Are Here: “What Do You See”

Features

• ”A Very Dark Place”
• ”The Long Walk of the Kuchi”
• ”Plants with Soul”

Memoirs

• ”My Life with Tolstoy”
• ”The Changeling”
• ”Swimming with Mao”

Arts and Culture

• Style: “Reawakening the Brief, and Other Unmentionables”
• Literature: “The Ends of the Earth”
• Travel: “Where Beauty Has No Ebb”
• Music: “Life After the Death of Jazz”

Field Notes
“Driving Lessons”
by Joseph Boyden
(pp. 21-23)


Joseph Boyden’s first novel, Three Day Road (Toronto: Viking Canada, 2005), recounts the story of a Cree medicine woman from Ontario whose family is ravaged by World War I. Three Day Road was nominated for a Governor General’s Award in 2005.

Those readers anticipating the delivery of a child in the back of a car can track down the 1966 instructional film Sudden Birth by Alan Paul Rhone, which offers birthing tips for police officers should they ever come across women in labour in stalled automobiles or traffic jams.

If your own child was born in a car, you can submit your account to birthstories.com, which has an “Alternative“section devoted to babies born in cars, trucks, and bathtubs, among other venues.