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and want to know who the important writers and books were from the 1850s to 2000, check out my vlog/ other blog, Googling canlitbooks.ca I have provided myriad rare images from my large CanLit collection related to the topic.

There is one space-break between paragraphs late in the story between the episode when John’s wife is hovering on the edge of deciding to sleep with the young neighbor Steven and the next one when she wakes up the next … Continue reading →

Academy Awards or Westminster Dog Show. Will follow the dogs with part 4 (the last) of Ken Burns’ excellent DVD documentary of the The Dust Bowl. Absolutely riveting and raises the bar on understanding, empathy, and sympathy for what those … Continue reading →

Ever notice how, when you open a pillcase, a pill tries to escape as you go into it?

Back in the 1980s at English Language Arts Council while staying at the Hotel Vancouver. We took a mini-yacht dinner cruise from Granville Island out past Lions’ Gate Bridge around Stanley Park, mooring in darkness in the inlet by the … Continue reading →

(Previously posted on March 11, 2019 by rdavies)   Click on this link http://www.noquitinme.ca/downloads/ to see a brochure that highlights compelling testimonials from a wide range of patients and professionals. John Kuby is a 68 year-old healthy sports guy who unexpectedly ran … Continue reading →

Aldous Huxley’s 1932 Brave New World narrated by Huxley with music by Bernard Herrmann of Citizen Kane and Psycho fame, CBS radio, 1956. Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray read by Hurd Hatfield who played Gray in the celebrated … Continue reading →

Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman leading an effort to plant 30 million trees in Africa. Jimmy Donaldson, launched a campaign to plant 20 million trees. Ethiopia, where 23 million people planted 350 million trees in a day.

With the passing of screen legend Kirk Douglas, it is time to go back and dust off his many classics including Spartacus, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Vikings, Lust for Life, Paths of Glory, and so many more … Continue reading →

I don’t believe in systems. Became disillusioned within and by them by 40. At which point, I reaffirmed my individuality and realized Hamlet’s “To thine own self be true” (the name of my blog) as my credo. Since then nothing … Continue reading →