Monthly Archives: July 2022
That Famous Pharaoh
He is probably the most famous Egyptian pharaoh, and arguably the least important. His primary claim to fame is that grave robbers, for the most part, missed his tomb. Until the twentieth century that is. Then the wealth of Tutankhamen was discovered for the world to see. There are thousands of artifacts that have toured the […]
Surfing the Elysium Tide
My ongoing question as I read the new novel Elysium Tide was: Where are the flying pigs? We all know there are no flying pigs in real life. Nor are there any pigs in this book. Given the suspension of disbelief required to enjoy this novel, I could have accepted flying pigs quite readily. Though […]
Monday’s Thoughts
I know it is Wednesday. But it was a monday when I wrote this post, which I discovewred in my draft post file. I thought I’d leave the title unchanged. I think on the day I oiriginally intended to post this I decided it might be too offensive. I have a couple of posts that […]
Old Fashioned Religion
Stuck in an airport with no place to plug in, and battery power unexplainedly low, here’s a repeat of a post from 2015. If I get home (my flights keep getting delayed), I’ll share a new post on Tuesday. He seemed like a relic of a bygone era, a street preacher standing on a park […]
Sunday Grammar
Yes, I shared this one before, but I was smiling at it again yesterday so thought it was worth passing on for those who haven’t seen it before.
Holding True
In recent weeks there have been a number of mass shootings in the United States. I thought about commenting, then decided I had nothing new to say. Today though I’m saying something old. Sadly, nothing seems to have changed in the seven years since this piece first appeared here. In Canada we take government restrictions […]
The Unknowns
Are you as addicted to the printed word as I am? If it’s there, I’ll read it. Or, if I don’t speak the language, try to read it. There are plaques are on either side of a building in the Zarmalek area of Cairo. The low-level brass caught my eye, as did the fact the […]
Looking At The Eyes
Sometimes miss the obvious. I never thought of the story of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker as something people would pay to see. Even less would I think that Hollywood would treat their story (somewhat) sympathetically. Maybe that is due to my own prejudices. Even before the scandal that brought down their televangelist Empire I […]
Keeping Warm
I remember the patched holes in the celing, one in each room. I didn’t think much about them. It was the house my grandmother lived in, the one where my father was born. I spent a lot of my childhood visiting. Small-town Ontario was a different world for an urban dweller. The holes, I realized, […]
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