Monthly Archives: February 2019

My wooden two-volume-books coffee table in the family room. Love it! Books–reading, writing, editing, publishing them–have been most of my life. My school textbooks sold over 1 million copies across Canada from 1980 to about 2005. During that time, I … Continue reading →

Given how icy and snow-covered Edmonton roads are. My main winter-exercise device. A simple old-fashioned CCM stationary bike from the 1960s, inherited from my wife’s parents long ago.

is an indoor fountain. Psychologically and spiritually, it helps to hear slow-falling water on winter days.

a metallophone. I use it to create musical poems each day. Never the same two days in a row.

A typewriter-tea kettle in honor of all the typewriters we both used in the past.

On top of the fridge, an unused wooden pig carving-board he made in the 1950s. He was a very creative soul.

Note Shakespeare bust on top shelf presiding over all, Castle Mt. pic  to its right; next shelf down: Auden CD collection on left; next shelf down: Sherlock Holmes oversized collection, Jeremy Irons reading T.S. Eliot CD beside it; note: wall … Continue reading →

signed ‘Mavis’

from my university English days, Brueghel’s “Winter”. Worth looking up: John Berryman’s excellent companion poem “Winter Landscape” “The three men coming down the winter hill…”