Monthly Archives: May 2022

A unique bill for eating.

and his astounding continuing legacy to charity via the salad oil dressings he co-created with his buddy Mencken (who was also pals with Hemingway). All the profits go to charity. Can’t think of another actor who has matched this major … Continue reading →

A 2-transistor pocket radio accompanied me practically everywhere I went from grade 5 to 11 (1959-1965). On it I listened to the top 40 and 50 hits 0f the day and carried it with me on my afternoon paper route … Continue reading →

My Dad enjoyed the photos he had taken of places he’d been in his retirement years. Once in a while, he would get a blow-up of something he liked and had been impressed by; he entered the original-sized picture of … Continue reading →

Coincidentally. Peanut (Buster Parfait) is visiting us right now for a couple of weeks. The poem would have been less without its central contrast and juxtapositions. And the quiet, peaceful, contemplative spaces have a place in a larger world of … Continue reading →

Ronnie Hawkins, who chose to live in Canada and who mentored The Band in the 1960s.

(Along with Alice Munro, the last two great Canadian writers still standing) …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Creating a fireproof Handmaid‘s book for PEN to auction off to raise funds against the mindlessly evil U.S. forces against censorship. She goes one better than Bradbury … Continue reading →

(By George, the 20th century’s most prophetic, prescient author) Orwell’s right again; he being the first to predict that the power-hungry would be in charge and control information flow. Even down to the two-minute hates in which mobs screamed in … Continue reading →

“Cognitive dissonance” by RD “Blue-sky thinking” and a long-time delight in word play culminated in this poem.

My involvement with Richard III began in 1972 when I taught Josephine Tey’s 1951 detective novel, The Daughter of Time to a gr. 11 class. The book is about an English detective laid-up in hospital who reconstructs Richard’s reputation after … Continue reading →