7,000 words . . . and then some
that title, you’ll see, refers to the 7 pictures, presumably worth 1000 words each . . . So it’s three weeks or so since I last wrote here. Thanksgiving weekend, I burrowed my way through…
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A Trio of Girls and Miriam Toews’ The Flying Troutmans
I had hoped to write about Miriam Toews’ The Flying Troutmans, but one of my daughters (who counts Toews’ A Complicated Kindness among her favourites) has borrowed it. Without pages to turn, passages to look…
View PostDavid Adams Richards speaks out
Today’s Globe and Mail includes an adapted excerpt from David Adams Richards’ new book, God Is, an excerpt that I think is important, controversial, and well worth reading. The headline for the essay suggests its…
View PostWinter view from a Summer Perspective
Summertime and the paddling is pleasant! View from my deck yesterday afternoon A few years ago, I commented to a neighbour, during a third rainless week in mid-September (which followed a dry, hot August) that…
View PostDon Domanski and metaphor
I’ve just read Canadian poet Don Domanski’s Ralph Gustafson lecture Poetry and the Sacred, published as a beautiful hand-stitched chapbook. As I was recently thinking about metaphor while reading Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies and Dickens’…
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