Monthly Archives: February 2022

with all NATO nations, except China, speaking out against Putin’s dangerous violent aggression. Here, at home, my East Indian neighbor–whom I do not know in any depth–graciously comes over and blows the new snow off my driveway. Elsewhere, in many … Continue reading →

Kadrush Radogoshi an Edmonton Orpheus / By Richard Davies Kadrush Radogoshi is an established Albanian poet whose latest book, Orpheus’ Palimpsest, is inspired by the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, one of the central myths of Western civilization. The romantic … Continue reading →

Down and Out in Paris and London, first published 1933; this ed. with all material previously omitted from the original for reasons of propriety or libel. Best book of its kind I’ve ever read about the poor’s day-to-day struggle to … Continue reading →

2022/02/23 news: our-lives-may-actually-flash-before-our-eyes-when-we-die-new-study-suggests.

Originally published in Spanish, 1985; 1985  (English translation published, Burning Patience, 1987; has a different ending from the movie) The popular, sensuous 1995 movie directed by Michael Radford; the screenplay with modified ending was developed by Radford and the actor … Continue reading →

Left to right: 3 Scona teacher-colleagues–long-time movie close friend Gerry Lawson, a British Invasion friend Ron Blond, and a civilized soul kindred spirit Bill Beecroft (latter two have passed). My witty. irreverent Scona student-teacher friends: Wayne Lavold and Bob Gardner … Continue reading →

Everything you need to know about what’s happening in North Korea, China, United States, and now in Canada and Russia. It’s all there: the lies, political propaganda, doublespeak, doublethink, Big Brother, the pigs, the guard dogs, the dictators, totalitarian, autocracy, … Continue reading →

as described, brutally, by Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Unremitting winter cold, inadequate clothes, truly awful disgusting food, and beatings, with no hope of escape.