Monthly Archives: February 2023

Andre, the night before his first battle: “Tomorrow everything may be over for me! All these memories will be no more, none of them will have any meaning for me…I don’t know what will happen and don’t want to know, … Continue reading →

on one thing re. putting on footwear.You pretty much have to deal with one foot at a time when you have snowboots with velcro strips. Step into one, then pull the strip across before going on to the second foot.

is not a place…it’s a feeling.

Big human-nature words covering a lot of what is bigger, deeper, and more intense than simple physical desires. To a large degree, you can get to know what someone is really like from their yearnings. Which is definitely way more … Continue reading →

a cold snap over ON/Eastern Canada is over “Canada”, ignoring that AB and SK are also in Canada. This ON egocentrism has long been around. When I grew up in Winnipeg in the ’50s and ’60s, I used to think … Continue reading →

63-year-old Suzanne Vega, whom I once went to see in 2010 at Arden Theatre, is touring the U.K. currently. She did a Carson McCullers project and those songs are on her 2016 album. She has remained one of the most … Continue reading →

de Montaigne. It’s been quite the 10+ year trip, personally speaking, this blog. Montaigne’s Essais offered the best model of what I wanted to write beyond my poetry, fiction, and nonfictional prose. I set out in 2012, originally to record … Continue reading →