Monthly Archives: October 2021

below suet in fall.

Calculator man With rock book Rock book opened to inside

“You see you can’t please everyoneSo you got to please yourself.”–“Garden Party” For myself, as long ago as 1990, when I’d hit a wall from sacrificing and putting myself out there too much for the pleasure and approval of others. … Continue reading →

About 1961 in grade 6, my friend Bob Hutchinson and I decided to take a chance and go trick-or-treating, although most of our classmates had stopped the practice, being ‘too old’. I went to one house on a ‘higher-up’ street … Continue reading →

(The Great Pumpkin revisited) (decorated crème de menthe pie; the 1 1/2 oz. version)

100% in 190550% in 197630% in 201510% in 2021.The point of diploma exams today? Exams were worth 100% in MB in 1967 when I graduated and the same here in my first 4 years of teaching. Grossly unfair, limited, and … Continue reading →

1. The Ultimate Scary Kids Movie: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (on The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad) 2. Ultimate Ghost Stories: The Innocents (1961)–Truman Capote-adapted version of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting (1964)–based … Continue reading →

–Walt Whitman See examples thereof by searching the following titles on this website: The Main Historical Events of My Life 70 Years: A Self-Portrait My Special Friends: A Short Select History Thereof Rick Davies, Winnipeg, SHCI: After 1967 AD To … Continue reading →

Albertan’s chose to stay with the current system by less than 1%. Calgary and Edmonton area carried the day.Fewer problems for the sports teams and many others this way.Personally, I don’t like the amount of winter darkness we currently wake … Continue reading →

you would not have seen 10 years ago: What’s on Queen Elizabeth’s mind?