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(What a prolific, influential life and career) The Lady from the Sea at the Timm Centre with a nice Earl’s sup across the street beforehand with my co-author-friend. Ibsen’s usual themes: “the individual, not the group, is of paramount importance, … Continue reading →

After refs calling the most nonexistent, questionable, and extremely minor penalties throughout the season, players and teams are now allowed to club each other to death sans calls. Sort of like Rollerball out there; the team that wins the cup … Continue reading →

(photo of LC signing–Anjani doing the stamping–in my autographed copy and others of The Book of Longing) “And there are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your boxes … Continue reading →

as he has for some years, was Gord Miller, a former Scona grad, whom I remember coming into the school at the end of the day in the ’90s when he was starting up for CBC TV locally. Seemed like … Continue reading →

according to Bank of Nova Scotia, enriched thinking is “your thinking, combined with our thinking”. Hmmmm…. Ironies: I guess you can’t have any enriched thinking of your own without them and enriched thinking is solely concerned with accumulating money and … Continue reading →

(“Glad Day”–William Blake) “Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.”

Long gone are the survey courses in both of my youth. With the usurpation by politically-correct topics, kids no longer know, study, or encounter: Frederick Banting Alexander Graham Bell Billy Bishop the Bluenose Robert Borden Brebeuf General Brock the amazing … Continue reading →

Ian Brady has died, the last of the two Monsters of the Moors; Myra Hindley, his accomplice died sometime ago. Brady has had the unmitigated gall to request that his ashes be scattered on the moors where they killed six … Continue reading →

“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.” –John Ruskin

you have committed treason. Common sense. No brainer. As I ‘ve said ,many times we do it to ourselves as Trump has shamelessly and repeatedly done since being elected. He is an impeachment destined to happen because of his own … Continue reading →