Monthly Archives: November 2019

Buy a pair of those ubiquitous cheapo fabric gloves found in grocery stores or stores like London Drugs. Put them by the driver’s seat door. Use them when you gas up. These also make practical gifts for birthdays or Christmas.

Tear off an eraser head from a pencil. Stick the poppy pin into the eraser on the inside of your clothing.

The tv ad for “Shaw Blue Curve”. When I first heard the service advertised, I thought the speaker said “Frau Blucher” (as in the character from Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein).

defy reason on cold frosty days of winter. I recall my first encounter with them working as a paper boy in 1959-60. Many of the homes in my St. James neighborhood of Wallasey St. and Thompson Dr. had old-fashioned steps … Continue reading →

whereby school children go to cemeteries to leave poppies on deceased soldiers’ graves is an excellent way to honour the dead who fought in wars to safeguard our country, other countries, and the world. For me, this is a significant, … Continue reading →

Earlier I had discussed T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” and Allen Ginsberg’s “Kaddish” as two of the top 20th century poems. Ginsberg’s legendary “Howl”, published in 1956 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s press, would be a third, and it memorably became the … Continue reading →

we are greater than we know.” -William Wordsworth, “Sonnet to the River Duddon”