Monthly Archives: January 2022

Oh, let us turn our thoughts todayTo Martin Luther KingAnd recognize that there are ties between usAll men and women living on the EarthTies of hope and loveSister and brotherhood That we are bound togetherIn our desire to see the … Continue reading →

“….And then I got into Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers? Well, I don’t know what will happen … Continue reading →

Into my heart on air that killsFrom yon far country blows:What are those blue remembered hills,What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content,I see it shining plain,The happy highways where I wentAnd cannot come again.

Into my heart on air that killsFrom yon far country blows:What are those blue remembered hills,What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content,I see it shining plain,The happy highways where I wentAnd cannot come again. … Continue reading →

Not I. Scrabble has long been my favorite word game since grade 11, 56 years ago. A good party game before the pandemic. More recently, I’ve begun doing my late mother’s Jumble books. I can see why she considered this … Continue reading →

Lies, two-facedness, phoniness. “Sure everybody, you don’t need N95s to survive out there in schools and at work. But I do. I’m extremely special. Privileged, baby.” *Every bit as hypocritical as Boris Johnson’s controversial booze parties while laying down opposite … Continue reading →

around the world in her light plane and is soon reaching her final destination in Belgium is another positive sign of changing limits for young women. This, in total contrast to the bimbo party girls vaping it up on the … Continue reading →

recalls an episode of the Somerset Maugham story tv series which I’d seen back in the summer of ’71 in which a traveller to a South sea island had an earwig (The story is called “The Earwig”) in his ear, … Continue reading →

of Shakespeare’s First folio, arguably the greatest printed first edition work/s of literature in Western civilization. At U of T and at UBC (just acquired). There is absolutely no question that Shakespeare is the greatest writer who’s ever lived and … Continue reading →

Taxing the unvaccinated. In Alberta, I seriously doubt Kenney would do anything to upset his remaining redneck  (11%) base.