This trip is different than I thought it would be but I could not be any happier. I feel utterly spoiled to death, met many new people and made many new friends. I have also…
My goodness, a recent email from Adonis: He: So I pulled some strings and moved the party to the 1st. Which means I would definitely miss breakfast on the 2nd but definitely make lunch in…
Yesterday was my first day of volunteering at the Asian Art Museum and I just loved it. It was an exquisite experience. But here is something absolutely strange and unbelievable that happened. My ‘job’ that…
This on Instagram from Rubenrezz, important and true words, one of the reasons I love Instagram. Fall in love with someone who wants you, who waits for you, who understands you even in the madness….
This morning an email from the UK. It was the greatest compliment I have ever received my whole life, I think. It is from a man who does not give compliments out easily and so…
This from a UK friend, from 2017. He was away from his computer and came back to a month of blogs which occasioned his comments about the length of them. It is so funny, as…
I am a graduate of the University of Alberta, hence, get emails from their site. This edition celebrates the the awarding of a Killam annual professorship upon Lisa Strohschen a U of A sociologist. She…
Yesterday morning I awoke at 5:30 in a totally bad mood, for many reasons. My hot water bottle leaked during the night – now often I say that I prefer hot water bottles in my…
Faithful readers will remember R from the blog of October 13, 2019. To quote from the beginning of his unsolicited text: “I think I might have fucked up the most intimate situation in the universe….
Scene: Apartment in Hayes Valley, San Francisco. Writer In Bed with Ice Machine on Right Knee, Weather Conditions: Foggy, Windy and Cool. Writer, alert, has been so for hours. Personal Driver transported her in pre-traffic…