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(a recommended CD of the quirky, interesting novelist Graham Greene) still are: Agatha Christie Joseph Conrad Charles Dickens Graham Greene Thomas Hardy George Orwell George Bernard Shaw Virginia Woolf Each has significant bodies of work with variety. The greatest still, and one … Continue reading →

There have been predictions of favorites to win before on the famous Westminster dog show, but this year’s winner was a little too hyped and forecast long before the final. Early in the lousy Fox coverage, with a surfeit of ditzy … Continue reading →

Despite the many various nets we thrown over Life, it and most people we’ve known remain elusive and slip through the openings–never to be known, understood, let alone appreciated. –RD, Feb. 14, 2017 (If you’re looking for a classic movie that … Continue reading →

My rare signed Silent Spring flatsigned by Rachel Carson showed up. She is one of three 20th century women who has really impressed me forever. In case you don’t know, she is the little lady who brought the U.S. government … Continue reading →

Scamp (name inspired by Lady and the Tramp), an adopted mongrel, grew up with me from 1956-1962. He was significant company and a playmate, ‘always home’ when the latchkey kid arrived back from school.

(my Marlon Brando year, complete with red handkerchief ‘prop’, loosely based on Mr. Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty?) “Now jurymen, hear my advice…”

(Speed living. One year married, a U of A B.A. grad, English major, one year away from a first year of teaching job in Grand Centre/Cold Lake area, age 21.)

(and Nature, too) freedom possibilities imagination poetry music sensibility

Ultimate selfie a la van Gogh. Portrait of the Artist.

Signature poem.