Monthly Archives: December 2021

from a loose piece of a truck ahead of you, flying off and taking you out for good, as has happened to a nice young woman-mother lately. Imagine the very real possibility of being taken out by someone else’s carelessness … Continue reading →

now with the gang of 20 otters nearly killing a man out for a morning walk in Singapore. 26 nasty bites; he feared for his life; but survived/is ok after treatment. Yet another example of “fair” becoming “foul” in our … Continue reading →

A found picture and unsent note from Dean McKenzie, The Legend, in 1992. Spiritus (an Edmonton performance poetry trio): Dean on right, Glen Kirkland in the middle, and me on the left). Note: “Hail Spiritus! Its genesis takes on even … Continue reading →

Did ‘crazy gun-crazed America’ kill the harmless, pro-peace-Beatle trying to live quietly ‘like other/ordinary folks’ in the States? (John’s fatal error was in believing he would always be safe and unharmed in liberty-loving America. He likely didn’t expect that–simply because … Continue reading →

(picked up at Robert Frost Farm on a visit to Derry N.H. in the early 1990s; key lines of “The Road Not Taken”, one of the  most popular poems in English in the world)

to Edmonton city council stupidly wasting money putting down concrete blocks in cyclists’ lanes (that was the council’s stupid #1 priority once upon a time), then spending more dough to collect them after the cyclists complained. to the federal government … Continue reading →

Even the blue jays are skittering and sliding in for a landing to pick up their peanuts on the icy patio.

when they get home from work, after supper, or in the evening. During the darkest months of the year, I turn them on about 3:30-4 p.m. when twilight comes early, remembering the schoolboy I once was coming home in the … Continue reading →

at least one dog in the first 10 seconds of your tv commercial to establish that the company advertised loves and supports dogs.

met his Waterloo. Obit, 89. Waterloo WaterlooWhere will you meet your Waterloo?Every puppy has his dayEverybody has to payEverybody has to meet his Waterloo Now old AdamWas the first in historyWith an appleHe was tempted and deceivedJust for spiteThe devil … Continue reading →