Author Archives: rdavies

The year I was born was also the same year my Dad bought this 10″ LP of lounge-style jazz piano and guitar by the popular Page Cavanaugh Trio; this in age when jazz was more mainstream and more popular than … Continue reading →

in garden carrots.

“It’s life’s illusions I recall. I really don’t know life at all.” (“Both Sides Now”, made a pop radio anthem by Judy Collins) Wise and conscious beyond (the above) words in her 20s, starting out–Saskatoon’s Joni Mitchell, once called The … Continue reading →

to control the rights to their bodies, if Barrett is confirmed and votes on Roe v. Wade.

Both grandsons are budding mathematicians.

A sacred place, for sure, away from it all. Marshall and Gibson amps and drum machine with faux bass. Guitars are 12 string electric Rickenbacker (Beatles black model), Gibson ES 335TD hollow electric, 6 string Marr-Mackenzie acoustic. Surrounded by music … Continue reading →

With menu. The memorable red decor, menu, and service.

Wearing tee-shirt of the late, great Johnny Clegg dancing.

For three years in the 2000s, I worked as a film classifier for the Province of Alberta. The white sign is what moviegoers would have seen in theatre cashier windows and on outside display poster boards in the 1960s for … Continue reading →