Author Archives: rdavies

Looking FW to those quiet spring-summer-fall Sunday mornings

at my daughter’s place in Ellerslie.

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Easter, 2024

Skye celebrating rebirth, renewal, hope, and spring.

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The Wonderful 1981 British TV Series “Brideshead Revisited”

that made Jeremy Irons–right–a star. (Here, with Anthony Andrews–left–as Sebastian in his best-ever role)

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“They say, Charly,

true love is letting go.”

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Buddy Knox, 1957

I will never forget my 17-year-old aunt bringing this album home when she lived with us for a few years before getting married. I got to play the hits from it, “Party Doll” and “Hula Love” (songs on YouTube), which … Continue reading

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Like clockwork, whenever someone peeled an orange in the kitchen…

as you started to peel it, the molecules began to spread outward and instantly you heard what sounded like a head alerted on a bed upstairs, four feet hitting the floor, and a mad dash down the ten-step stairway, and … Continue reading

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In the closet of a mailroom on the Wednesday before Easter/spring break,

the three of them crammed in, emptying their mail slots. One of the men said to her, “I’d like to take you to lunch tomorrow.” She turned instantly to the second man and said, smiling, “Why don’t you come, too?” … Continue reading

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Though he compared himself again today to Jesus Christ,

Donald Trump is defending himself for paying off Stormy Daniels. As Lawrence O’Donnell astutely pointed out, he’s not aware of Jesus Christ ever paying off a porn star.

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Patrick Drysdale, Who Made Me a Book Author in 1980

Good old Paddy of the long-defunct Gage Publishing came to Edmonton in the hot summer of 1978 to sign me and Glen Kirkland to a three book Connections series contract for grade 10-12 general/non-academic streams in Canada. A true gentleman, … Continue reading

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A Core Dylan Image for Me

In it, a self-chosen defining identity, a symbolic archetypal youth attitude, and a definition of a a recurring idea and age.

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