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The Newspaper Editor
The falcons I write about in The Ravenstones weren’t the first birds that preoccupied me over the course of my adult life. Back in 1972 another one did, when I was appointed the first editor of the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Uplands Falcon newspaper. The paper was named after one of the planes flown by Read more
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Merry Christmas!
I love the Christmas season and I love the works of Charles Dickens. Have they not gone hand in hand for the past 180 years? I also have a particular fondness for and appreciation of the illustrators of that “Golden Age” of British book illustration (1890 – 1920), Arthur Rackham most notably. So when the Read more
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Lavender’s Blue
I suspect that the vast majority of today’s adults (at least English-speaking ones in the western world) grew up with an awareness of nursery rhymes. Many learned how to read, spell, sing, rhyme and count with the help of such little poems; they are part and parcel of everyday language and common understanding. Just saying Read more
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For All Mankind
For the last few years I’ve been watching (off and on, as the episodes become available) the enthralling Apple TV+ series, For All Mankind. The show started off as an alternative history of the early days (1950’s and 1960’s) of the US/Soviet race to the moon. By season three, we’d entered the 1990’s, the private Read more
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Remembering War, Heroism and Nobility
When this post is published (a day earlier than normal), it will be November 11, Remembrance Day in those countries who participated in either of the two world wars. Originally called Armistice Day (and still called that in the United States) to commemorate the end of the First World War, it is being observed in Read more
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The End of The Line
In the summer of 2006, I picked up my proverbial pen to write a short story about a polar bear. To be completely accurate, I sat down in front of my old Apple computer and started typing. The story was projected to be (in my mind at least) about 26 pages long, with lots of Read more
