Bookpuddle

Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place. -- Kenneth Grahame (1859 – 1932) – Have a great Wedn...

When I was growing up on the Canadian prairies, in as Ukrainian a family as it is humanly possible to be, we ate a lot of perogies. Only we ...

A man said, "Think as I think Or you are abominably wicked, You are a toad." And after I had thought about it I said, "I will...

I think that we should never feel that we are too old to rediscover (or maybe discover for the first time) children’s books. Even if I go on...

He once told her he wanted to share his life with her. He said he’d never asked anyone that before. How she melted over that, how she lapped...

I just bought a new bottle of cologne. About every six months or so I have to make this same old purchase. And for the last ten years or so,...

You know what I really used to love about camping? The cereal. The cereal was so good. Camping. This was when mom would load the trunk of ou...

Well, after work I went to the Rockcliffe Park Book Fair. It is an annual event (mostly used books) and I’ve been at every one for about the...

T he very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his l...

One day when I was about ten years old I was downtown with my mother. I am not sure what it was she was shopping for, but at one point we tu...

"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards...

I am sitting at Starbucks, drinking about my ninth gallon of cafe americano! Now, what is on my mind today is I am wondering if you have eve...

For the poets nothing is wasted, because even if it is, they can write about the waste. -- from Loulou; or, The Domestic Life of the Languag...

It’s been a long time since I've let fly with a really good rant , right? This is going to probably sound as though I am in a real testy...

For one human being to love another is perhaps the most difficult task of all, the epitome, the ultimate test. It is that striving for which...

Well, dear ghouls and goblins. Here is a little ditty I wrote, many scary moons ago..... The Thirtyfirst Chilled, no doubt the night air fel...

"They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-head...

Please Lord! Have I not endured enough? Is it too great a thing, to ask You to please have a look at this blogpage, and perhaps fix it, in T...

I am currently reading Margaret Atwood's short stories. A book called Bluebeard's Egg. In one story, entitled Hurricane Hazel , Atw...

I am just sitting here at Starbucks (big surprise) and thinking about how much I love it here.... and why ! When it comes to “marketing”, S...