Francois Meunier turned ninety on June 12 but it was necessary to celebrate the occasion more than once as there was not enough room at the Grey Nun’s Hospital in Edmonton to host the family…
My precious friend Colette just got to Edmonton from California. She came and picked me up at the Chateau Lacombe. We had the following conversation: Me: I have so many things to tell you about my…
I am still in Edmonton staying at the Chateau Lacombe. I lived in Edmonton from 1955-1967. I attended and graduated from the University of Alberta in 1964. Memories of times are flooding back to me…
The first task of the morning was to send an email to Triple C. The subject line was: Where Am I and How Did I Get Here. He did not respond and it is now…
David Sedaris is one of my favorite authors because he is hilariously funny, He was interviewed on a New York Book Review podcast, listening to him with my earphones in the lobby of the Trump…
This blog shall begin with a wisdom from my birthday book; It’s Gonna Be Okay. “Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well,…
Today is June 4, 2017, it is now 8:17 and I have already had at least three rather profound conversations, and one trivial one. Trivial one first. Me: Where were you? I had to ask E.H.B…
Triple S.’s birthday book supplies this from Garrison Keillor: “I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.” It seemed the perfect quote as I awoke feeling totally discombobulated. The definition first…
I received an email from a dear friend who has been in my life for about fifty years. He wrote: “You get wittier and wittier as time goes by. Don’t lose your humor and quick…
I popped down to the lobby for my morning ritual of blog writing to find Thesaurus (aka Triple C.) had taken the day off which is fine, every once in a while, but he had…