The End of Feet of Clay; or Who Wrote the Better Obituary
So this is where we left off yesterday. “ Could you have paid a finer tribute to this man? What about this piece of writing, this tribute? How does this rank as an obituary? Can…
Refusing to Get Caught Up In Royal Wedding Fever but Instead An Examination of the Obituary, Part I
I am loath to admit that I am sort of starting to get caught up in this Royal Wedding stuff, breaking down and watching a PBS program. So now I know her name: Meghan and…
A Loser Book; A Wedding Dress; A Hot Dog on Mother’s Day and Some Actual Good Memories of Times Gone By
So I am at Vancouver Public Library (one of my favorite places on earth) and I pick up a book Best Canadian Sports Writing. I leaf through it and I bloody well cannot believe it –…
Such a Morning with My UK Classmates; WOW What a Day Yesterday: The Greek on Mainland; and: I Can Buy My Own Flowers
I woke up this morning to an email from my former classmate and colleague Ted Powell. He informed me of his fame and celebrity sending an email to all classmates and the instructor. He: If…
Emulating Emily Carr; A Selfie: Boris; TeeJay Singing Higher Window
To all of you needing vocabulary instruction emulating means: “If you emulate something or someone, you imitate them because you admire them a great deal.” Sons are traditionally expected to emulate their fathers. [VERB noun]…
The Stradivarius Legacy Circle Lunch; I Will Never Forget You; Symphony Ticket Purchase; Husn Azzan; and New Nails
Chris, my computer guru is on vacation and despite that he is loyally posting my blog – what a guy! But I decided to take it easy on him and not blog, giving him a…
The Most Amazing Day of My Whole Life, May 7, 2017; Ending In an Air Conditioner and Bolero
What made the day amazing was sheer serendipity. Such a word, that serendipity. “Serendipity means an unplanned, fortuitous discovery.[The term was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to his friend…
Thoughts on Reading One’s Own Blog Leading to Disconnect: Learning from Mistakes; Building Walls; a Red Carpet; What Remains
I have established a new pattern. As before I write the blog and then send it off to Chris in an email, then another email with the picture or video to be featured. It is…
Looking Into the Peaking of Visits; An Epidemic of Loneliness: A Fitness Contest and a Busy Week
The April 27, 20i8 blog contained statistics and there was also a graph, a helpful visual aid. It demonstrated a huge spike of visits on March 30 and 31. I finally did some investigation. Ms….
The Resume Which Was Presented in June of 2017 accompanied by its Aftermaths Which May Continue or Perhaps a Nw Beginning
This Saturday began early, it always does, but I awoke to the sounds of birds – not those squawking sea gulls but real live birds. It is because it is spring and the guys flew…