So, to start out an email which I share, it was between Chris, my blog master, and is wife Claire. I had sent them an email describing some risqué plans for my 77th birthday.They: We…
For some unknown reason my email is totally confused and it opens in strange manner organizing according to subject and not date. So when I open mail it puts me back in time. Things are…
For some reason that word, candor, jumps into my head. Its definition: characterized by or exhibiting a determination or willingness to take action and achieve results: Used in a sentence: I like his can-do attitude….
Here it is, and so amusing in light of the day. It was an email to a friend, I was living in San Francisco at the time, so it was probably written in March or…
I awoke to a poem, sent by a friend who had given me a poem for my birthday three years before. This poem’ sentiments so needed these days.An epilogueI have seen flowers come in stony…
I was plunged int nostalgia this morning when opening an email from CPI. It is the banner head of the Gateway, The newspaper of the University of Alberta, my (and CPI’s alma mater. It shall…
I new word came to my deranged mind – it is dalliance. I am not sure why but an explanation of the word will make it clear. Dalliance brief or casual involvement with something: Berkeley…
I have a strange enough mind under ordinary conditions but these days/weeks of ‘self isolation’ are making matters even worse. A strange habit has emerged – I suddenly think of a word and know that…
To release the boredom of self quarantine I decided to take the identity of a damsel imprisoned in a tower during medieval times. COI suggested that Rapunzel might be a good role model. So, of…
I woke up yesterday in a state of utter contentment, even bliss. It was almost like a religious experience. It did not however lead me to even contemplate writing which is a daily compulsion. I…