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is not a place…it’s a feeling.

Big human-nature words covering a lot of what is bigger, deeper, and more intense than simple physical desires. To a large degree, you can get to know what someone is really like from their yearnings. Which is definitely way more … Continue reading →

a cold snap over ON/Eastern Canada is over “Canada”, ignoring that AB and SK are also in Canada. This ON egocentrism has long been around. When I grew up in Winnipeg in the ’50s and ’60s, I used to think … Continue reading →

63-year-old Suzanne Vega, whom I once went to see in 2010 at Arden Theatre, is touring the U.K. currently. She did a Carson McCullers project and those songs are on her 2016 album. She has remained one of the most … Continue reading →

de Montaigne. It’s been quite the 10+ year trip, personally speaking, this blog. Montaigne’s Essais offered the best model of what I wanted to write beyond my poetry, fiction, and nonfictional prose. I set out in 2012, originally to record … Continue reading →

Amazing effects!We used to have a poodle and when you would crack an orange in the downstairs kitchen, she would immediately come running from upstairs as the molecules released would be immediately detected by the dog’s extraordinary nose.Always the same … Continue reading →

Hard drug decriminalization will make everything worse.I don’t recommend a visit to downtown Vancouver.

January 22, 1967, Philharmonic Hall, New York, from their legendary North American tour. Three albums in the can including the beautiful Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme. They’d already had their first big hits on the top 40: Sound of SilenceHomeward … Continue reading →

Bobby Hull, The Golden Jet, 84.

setting up everything in late November, then enjoying it till late January-early February. Outdoors, we periodically continue to use the front lights with snowman and the backyard deer lights into February-March. Inside the house, we leave up the beautifully decorated, … Continue reading →