Author Archives: rdavies

Oldest wants to be a futurist architect-scientist. Youngest is more here-and-now.

via two Winnipeg teachers. Betty Shaw (grade 5: 1959-60). Brian Kells (grade 11: 1965-66). Betty–we email back and forth. Brian–we phone back and forth. Brian called this morning and we talked for an hour about his studio apt. at an … Continue reading →

A man with a knife on the street surrounded by many police with guns pulled out. Instead of say, using a Taser or net to control him or, at worst, shooting him in the leg to stop him, they outright … Continue reading →

Perception is reality. What you see/subjectively experience is what is fact/true. Shades of George Berkeley and the role of consciousness on the ‘inner’ side/experience of perception. For the individual, it exists if you can perceive it. Trump’s “alternate reality” crapola. … Continue reading →

(above: my signed photo of GL) Well, of course, there are Bruce, Joni, Buffy, and Ian, but–going back to the 1960s– Gordon Lightfoot has had a solo career spanning 7 decades. There are two large audio archives of his consistently … Continue reading →

Roget’s College Thesaurus. I first acquired the one on the right in 1965-66 (grade 11) and still use it today as a basic, fast thesaurus when writing. The 2002 edition on the left is well-worth picking up as well: many … Continue reading →

The Haunting, based on Shirley Jackson’s spooky novel The Haunting of Hill House. I taught it once in grade 10 in my first year of teaching (on the curriculum then)–1972. Kids loved it. The 1963 movie is faithful to the … Continue reading →

“You see but you do not observe” and many other Holmes quotations.

1950s game inherited from their great grandfather

Kids love working on big sheets of paper!