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Sometimes at work I will have the radio playing. Usually on CBC. I like to hear the news segments, etc... it's always good to know if [f...

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I love eggs. Chicken eggs. Not that I ever do it, but I could eat eggs and/or egg-related things, five times a day. I think I am part raccoo...

I believe in perfectionism as applied to art. If you have the temerity to be an artist the least you can do is go for broke. -- Barbara Gow...

I'm reading a novel about elephants. I'm about 2/3rds through this magnificent book by Barbara Gowdy , called The White Bone . In al...

Plain and simple, here is [in a nutshell] why I loved reading Hitch22 . ….. are you ready? [drumroll….] Because I love the author of the t...

I sometimes feel that I should carry around some sort of rectal thermometer, with which to test the rate at which I am becoming an old fart....

I have been waiting for this moment for a long time now. I was ordering a coffee at Starbucks and happened to look to the right, where a lit...

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. -- William Butler Yeats -- Have a great Thursday! ********

Well. At work today, there was a whole lotta shakin' goin' on! At about 1:41 p.m., [give or take a few seconds of me freaking out] -...

People like it when you tell them things, in suitable portions, in a modest, intimate tone, and they think they know you, but they do not, t...

So let us not say, Tomorrow I shall do it, for it is almost certain that tomorrow we will feel tired. Let us say instead, The day after tomo...

Question: "Can literature save your life?" Answer: "Not as a medicine, but it is one of the richest springs from which the sp...

The funeral for Jose Saramago took place today, in Lisbon Portugal. This, from a news release , moved me to tears -- After the official eulo...

It is with utmost sorrow that I return home from my holidays today to learn that my favorite living author is… no longer living. Portuguese ...

It's a long while since I have posted one of my original poems on Bookpuddle. I used to do so on a regular basis -- and I do continue to...

I've been reading the memoir of Christopher Hitchens and drinking this drink! And I don't even really like booze. But I am going to...

Last night we were in my brother's back yard burning wood. It was not a literal "campfire" because we were not camping. But, a...

Hi, Friends! I haven't been around here for a bit because I AM ON HOLIDAYS ... in fact, I am in the second week of a two-week holiday a...