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You never know what dangerous imported spider along for the ride might pop out as many shoppers have found out inadvertently.

One can be attacked in broad daylight at 3:30 pm as in the case of a kind black man, 65, who is known to my better half. This poor man was viciously kicked and assaulted in an unprovoked attack in … Continue reading →

Today is a real humdoozer (again). Don’t linger outside. Mind those pets. Gasline antifreeze is mandatory.

A seminal British ‘kitchen sink’ drama which was the late Albert Finney’s first starring role. He plays Arthur Seaton, a rebellious factory worker who gets his married lover (played nuancedly and poignantly by Rachel Roberts) pregnant and then tries to … Continue reading →

(widescreen/letterboxed dog) but I could not be happy without eyesight. Post-op, all is widescreen, brighter, in more vivid colors, demanding attention to details. There is more visual beauty in/to the world than I have seen in a long time. People, in … Continue reading →

in a terrible state of chassis.” –Joxer Daly, philosophical drunk in Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock  

The beautiful national butterfly sanctuary down by the Mexican/U.S. border waiting for the imminent, mindless, soul-less Trump excavators to roll in and destroy their habitat for a lie and a fictional national emergency which doesn’t exist. Right out of Steinbeck’s … Continue reading →

Happy Days. No generation gap here with my (only-child) Winnipeg parents. After first three-book ‘overnight success’ that changed my life forever. Taken after a triumphant return from a Halifax teacher conference in the early ’90s. Remembering them 30 years later, … Continue reading →

(at their peak, Edmonton’s most famous poetic trio with ‘Margaret Moodie’–Lynn Joberg) What a night! Surrounded by many of my poet-friends, launching the new book and performing “Until Next Year”–a combination of a cassette 1983 demo with Wayne Fraser and … Continue reading →

(This is the preferred version to see or buy) This adaptation of E.M. Forster’s pre-WW1 novel by the Merchant-Ivory-Prawer-Jhabvala team still stands up after all these years. This was my AA evening viewing this year; A Witness for the Prosecution … Continue reading →