Monthly Archives: April 2018

look out your Edmonton window and watch a magpie struggling to dig in the fresh-fallen snow to get something to eat as you do your morning Tai Chi exercises to music from a Chopin for Lovers CD.

A headliner: http://edmontonpoetryfestival.com/headliners/richard-davies-2018  

What we’re seeing happening now in Syria and England is a throwback to the mustard gas and chlorine attacks of WWI or napalm use in Viet Nam in the ’60s. Much like those diseases that were once brought under control … Continue reading →

whether it be at the dentist’s or doctor’s, is to distract oneself, to look away before the needle is inches away from the injection site. What you don’t see is much less likely to bother, frighten, or traumatize you.

Don’t even bother with this one. Go directly to Sidney Lumet’s excellent adaptation of Christie’s classic starring Albert Finney (unrecognizable as himself playing Poirot), Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, … Continue reading →

I would concur with her husband Leonard; it is her greatest novel. It contains her most passionate views on life, human nature, human experience, the effects of time passing, and death. And the book is very metaphorical right through to … Continue reading →

The inhibiting verb “must”. As in “I must go” or “I must adhere to what others might think of me or this”, or “I must do what I think is right”. So much for following the heart, one’s feelings, one’s … Continue reading →

the world, I want to get off”, I can recommend three options: Take 6 months off from work. (You’ll still get a pension.) Switch to half-time. (You’ll still get a pension.) Quit if it’s bad enough. (Nothing is worth sacrificing … Continue reading →

political censorship. (A sanctimonious, one-way, ego-centered imposition of these limited/limiting values on others.)

Egg-painting by daughter Easter bunny in search of much better weather Easter at Butchart Garden–a good time to go