Author Archives: rdavies

I feel like I’m peering into a massive, evil, corrupt, self-inflicted sewer resembling the lowest regions of Dante’s Inferno. And the Devils dancing are Trump and the GOPs right across the board. Yesterday’s white supremacists’ expulsion of two black legislators … Continue reading →

craziness, stupidity, corruption, hatred, and violence out there to a lack of education, an overdose of television and commercialism, and an inability to apply common sense, critical thinking, and reason. More and more, people can no longer make thoughtful distinctions … Continue reading →

A long-time landmark entry point to Winnipeg’s beautiful park. When my parents lived nearby from 1970 to 2008, they would often walk across it daily.

(Our daughter and her companion.) My family’s favorite Manitoba beach going back to the early 1950s.

With daughter, 2018.

The old Birchwood with its quaint elevator aquarium.

September, 2018.

While staying at the old Birchwood hotel, across Portage Avenue from my teen home of Billingsley Manor (1964-1970), receiving a Jeanne’s Cake to commemorate my birthday.

for drivers leaving the original St. James for Portage la Prairie. Portage Avenue building was the site of the original Jack Andrews Drugstore. I can remember buying fireworks, comics, and turtles there in the late 1950s.

George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-four, forecast many things that have become truths and truisms today. Here are some quotes from that book and others by one of the most unappreciated authors of the twentieth century: The essence of being … Continue reading →