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This is one of my favourite pictures of my father. A street bench in London, England -- enjoying a ciggy. This was taken by my brother when ...

The backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music. -- Amy Grant -- Have a great Friday! ******

Have a great Thursday! ******

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. -- Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic -- Have a great Wedn...

As I was reading in this excellent novel [ Alone in the Classroom ] by an author [Elizabeth Hay] who lives in my very city, the following pa...

There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark and another, ...

The same feeling of fascination came over her that used to settle her as a child watching her mother bandage a cut knee, or roll a lemon und...

I am always up for any sort of Word Challenge thingy and a commenter on my Saturday Snapshot posting [yesterday] alerted me to a word-challe...

For today's Saturday Snapshot I am displaying my laptop's current desktop wallpaper. It happens to be the sunrise as it appears from...

You've just gotta love [and miss] dear ol' Carl Sagan! Have a great Friday! ******

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few m...

Dear Blog-friends, please forgive my lack of blogging lately. I seem to have a bad case of Bloggage of the Arteries! But I have been doing s...

The quintessential emblem of religion — and the clearest manifestation of the perversity that lies at its core — is the sacrifice of a child...

I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, som...

Recently I sat in on a master class given by the filmmaker Luc Dardenne. He spoke of how viewers of his films should not assume they underst...

I'm in the final moments of a truly great week away from work, and even home. During my retreat away from reality, I visited an art gall...

There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border t...

Proof that Kermit The Frog watches porn! Have a great Thursday! ******

But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front...

Today I woke up earlier than I would have liked to, but for a better reason than usual. This day, my early rising was to get out onto the fr...