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Modesty + Gratitude: A Stellar Combination
I hadn’t planned on this post until coming across the following Youtube excerpt from last Sunday’s Actor (SAG-AFTRA) Awards: Harrison Ford, in accepting the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Life Achievement award for 2026, demonstrates a rare combination of honesty, modesty and gratitude. It’s a thank you well worth sharing widely. In just over eight minutes,… Read more
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Ukraine: A Victim of Russia’s Decline
Back to reality. Since I began publishing this bi-weekly blog back in June, 2020, it’s had a subtitle of: ‘A Reading Life and A Writing Journey’. In other words, it’s been focused on The Ravenstones series, on books in general, on reading, on being an author and, finally, on what goes into that experience. However,… Read more
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A Winter Interlude
I know I promised to post no more than every two weeks, but, hey, the Winter Olympics are on now, presenting a rare opportunity for the world to put aside dire thoughts and engage in friendly sports competition. Anyway, who knows where you or I will be in four years time. This may be my… Read more
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Bad Bunny & Leo XIV: The Altar Boy and the American Pope
I can’t believe I’m writing about the NFL for two weekends in a row. Well, not really football; rather about two icons of Latin America. But such is life – we writers find our inspiration everywhere. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images It’s been quite a week for Bad Bunny and it’s not over yet: last Sunday at… Read more
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NFL Playoffs. Seriously?
During one of our recent daily walks around the neighbourhood park, I was explaining to my wife about “point differential”, in this case specifically Michael Strahan’s comments prior to the NFL Wild Card game between the LA Rams and Carolina Panthers on January 10. “Let me stop you right there,” she said. “You should turn… Read more
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Moving To Barbados (Not)
It’s January now; the holidays are over and, up here in Canada at least, we’re in for a few more months of either gloomy skies or frigid temperatures. I’d say it’s time for a warm weather story. In the spring of 1980 I was scheduled to move to Bridgetown, Barbados. Back then, I was a… Read more
