Monthly Archives: May 2021

Each day I check my calendar to see what’s happening, what’s come up, and what’s coming soon. Occasions like birthdays and anniversaries, e-mail from friends, and the like to answer or move on. These days, things continue to move slowly … Continue reading →

To die for: 160 CD boxset of the complete Josef Haydn.

“Cheers!”

for making Alberta the Covid hotspot of North America?

-World peace overall since 1945, no world wars. -Ongoing wars, violence (especially against women), and atrocities in remote parts of the world along with global hunger and geographical displacements and migrations -1950: first organ transplants foreshadowing all the modern medical … Continue reading →

I’ve been writing since my youth, and began writing for others at about age 22, and later producing books from 1980 to today (writing during teaching from 1978 to 2002). My poetry writing became more serious beginning in 1980. These … Continue reading →

(1969-70: Playing back in the University of Winnipeg days with Clover–above wth close friend Wayne Fraser in white, and with my first trio with Glen Hall and Ian Gardiner) (1973-75: Playing back in Grand Centre/Cold Lake, AB with servicemen from … Continue reading →

His classic plague short story: “The Masque of the Red Death”. Who could have guessed how truly timeless and prophetic this tale would turn out to be? Justin Trudeau and Jason Kenney alternating the part of Prince Prospero.  COVID as … Continue reading →

in the military the past 6 years: Trudeau. He knew about the sexual abuse 6 years and did nada about it, never punishing the abusers, instead promoting them and lying to the women, media, and the public about his fake … Continue reading →

Now he’s closed the legislature, despite what he said last year when he compared himself to Churchill in WWII, because it’s ‘too dangerous’ to meet. Meantime he’s left the rest of us, schools, and businesses to meet daily for the … Continue reading →