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I'm all excited because: a) it's a long weekend here in Canada, and b) I got my Art Gallery membership card in the mail. <-- Th...

"... I know that tea is no minor beverage. When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in ...

He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands wit...

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not ...

I have to pop by for a few minutes while I am cooking a [late] chicken dinner to say a few words about a truly remarkable book. The Elegance...

Have a great Tuesday! *****

Those of us who feel inspired, as I do, by the greatness of small things will pursue them to the very heart of the inessential where, cloake...

Dear friends, my holiday time is nearly over. Monday shall soon be upon me like the slavering ghoul of an unwanted nightmare. But I have spe...

Have a great Friday! *****

What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will...

I am well into Day Two of a vacation. I have not gone anywhere -- I'm just staying right here -- but it is so nice to not be going to wo...

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not thro...

Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labou...

For this week's Saturday Snapsho t I am utilizing one of Alyce's provisos: The snapshot of a "friend". My decade-long fait...

Have a great Friday! *****

"I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales." -- Lindsey Buckingham -- A few months ago, I rediscovered my love of ...

"Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writer...

Without missing a beat Heath replied: "Yes, but there’s a second kind of reader. There’s the social isolate- the child who from an earl...

And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight -- isn’t that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except ...

I have been extremely lax in my reviewing, lately. Hah! Get it? Lax? Lacks? [Never mind…] But this book is just too good to not recommend to...