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Making The List
The world is now awash in AI offerings: Chat-GPT, Google Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Perplexity, etc. No wonder: they provide the average user with an incredible resource, saving people countless hours of work and business stacks of money. According to Stephen Witt, in an October 10, 2025, New York Times article (“The A.I. Prompt That Could Read more
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Books For Boys
Earlier this year (April 30) my friend Blake Bobechko published a Substack post about “books for boys”. And just this past week, he let me know that the book in question, “The Boys Book of Adventure“, has been published on Amazon. As a younger man, naturally Blake’s focus is forward-looking: his concern is for his Read more
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We’ll always have Paris.
The title of course comes from the famous 1942 film, Casablanca, words spoken by Humphrey Bogart (Rick Blaine) to Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa Lund) in its closing minutes, probably the second most famous movie quote of all time. Paris has been on my mind of late. Perhaps it’s because of President Macron’s current political challenges. Or Read more
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A Real Spy Story
It happened 80 years ago this very weekend. Faithful readers will know that, although my regular focus on this blog site is books, I’m also a fan of film noir, especially from its heyday in the 1940’s and 1950’s. So when I recently came across a movie of this genre and one with a Canadian Read more
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It All Started Here: “Beware The Cat”
The year 1553 in merry old England was not a great time to have strong religious beliefs, either Catholic or Protestant. Succession crises were the order of the day. On July 6 of that year, following the death of King Edward VI, a staunch Protestant, the line of succession was altered to maintain Protestant rule Read more
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Spring Clean-Up
Every April, our municipal government provides all households receiving curbside collection services with a “large item pick-up”, allowing up to four large items to be removed for free. It used to be called the annual Spring Clean-Up. Now let me tell you, this is one invaluable service. In suburbia, in an era of over-consumption and Read more
