I awoke to an email from a friend, She: Incidentally, what do you think of the AGO renaming an Emily Carr, from Indian Church to Church in Yuquot Village to avoid “hurt and pain”? Has…
So within a week I am going to turn 75. It is my birthday on May 29. My birthday has always been very strange for me – dreaded but not in the usual way. My…
A man no longer in my life paid me a vast compliment by saying that the quality he admired most was my ability to listen, to look and then change my mind. He, at the…
Don’t faint, you will never believe this, but I am in my living room watching television and what is on? Well the Royal Wedding – it is a replay apparently, I think it already happened….
You had to be there. There being the Tea and Trumpets concert on May 17, 2018 at the Orpheum Theatre. It was a thoroughly amazing, heart warming, magnificent occasion that began with the orchestra playing…
The words you have been waiting for – my wished for epitaph chosen from the pages of Cobra Clutch: Stormy Daze was a busty, cantankerous, scotch-swilling babe who was chock full of moxie.(page 51) i…
The hills and dales are alive with the sound of music – Mendelssohn’s Wedding March anticipating the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan and it is sheer garbage meant to distract folks from the awfulness…
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…
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…
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 –…