Bruce Roberts was born in Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador. When he was age twenty he uprooted and moved away like many other young people looking for employment. And like many other Newfoundlanders who moved away, he too left a part of his heart behind. His Newfoundland upbringing provided strong roots that could never be forgotten. In this book he tells a series of short stories about his experiences of growing up in Newfoundland and his time away. In 1988 he was part of a group of expatriate Newfoundlanders in the Toronto area that started a publication they called the Downhomer, of which he was the assistant editor. He hosted a show on CHIN radio called the Downhome Show and was as well, a partner in the Newfoundland General Store in Scarborough. All of these experiences became fertile grounds for spawning the short stories that he enjoys penning.