Monthly Archives: June 2015

a musician-songwriter. (He led and performed in bands for over 30 years.) To get to an entry/selection: look up by month and year in right-hand column on any of blog’s pages. Some of 30 personal song lyrics Edges, Sept. 5, … Continue reading →

(Woody Allen, Stardust Memories) Humor, Satire, Wit, Irony, Social Criticism To get to an entry/selection: look up by month and year in right-hand column on any of blog’s pages. Rutting season, Aug. 25, 2012 Of lust and latte, Sept. 2, … Continue reading →

(note enclosed in one of my books; the upside-down book is perhaps somewhat telling) Regardless of some well-publicized abusive behavior toward previous women in his life and extended problems with drugs and the bottle, it is hard not to feel … Continue reading →

will never love you.

Waking up late in the morning to find that the day has already begun for many out there. That and the realization that the world always goes on without us whether we are sleeping in or dead. It comes to … Continue reading →

blowin’ through the jasmine in my mind.” –Seals and Crofts’ “Summer Breeze” (which I used to sing and play in lounges) When it gets hot as it is today, I crack open the sliding patio doors and let the morning … Continue reading →

On being offered Cheerios for breakfast: “I used to eat them when I was little.”

was in a remote northern Alberta town called Grand Centre which had just built a new Douglas Cardinal senior high school which served students from the town, the nearby town of Cold Lake, the native reserve Beaver Crossing, and the nearby … Continue reading →

Passed today at 93. What a suave, urbane, decent, witty, likable gentleman in The Avengers 1960s UK secret agent series! The episodes with Diana Rigg (Emma Peel) are charming and thoroughly entertaining despite some preposterous plots. In his honour, I will … Continue reading →

“Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.” –Sir Thomas Browne