It’s always interesting to watch while political maneuvering backfires. That was the case this week when Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron tried to rush things and get Parliament to…
Yesterday I wore the button I got 50 years ago at the March on Wshington for Jobs and Freedom. It elicited only three comments, which surprised me. Either people on…
One of the delights of our trip was walking long distances on the beaches of Vancouver Island at low tide. They seemed to go on forever, with rocky outcroppings punctuating…
While we were on holiday we didn’t watch television, listen to the radio and looked at a newspaper only twice. We checked email a couple of times and used the…
There’s nothing in front of us but ocean for thousands of miles. Obviously the forces of the sea have dislodged a lot of trees near the shore, as well as…
Shortly after I arrived back in in Bloomington, Indiana following the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 50 years ago next Wednesday, I went to the nearest Western Union…
Great weather, lovely people, good conversation: the last two weeks have been great. The TV wasn’t on once, nor was the radio, and I only went on line to make…
Closing down for a while, because we’re going on a holiday. It’s the first Lee and I have done in several years, what with fires and elderly cats and new…
Urban farming is alive and well in Montreal. This community garden was once space the city didn’t need any more for its yards, and so was saved from sale and…
The front pages of the newspapers and the headlines on the news programs make me very sad this morning. The tragedy of the train explosion at Lac Mégantic continues (What…
Haven’t seen any one day work stoppages here by fast food workers, but I’ve been very interested to see the press that this sort of protest has been getting in…
The page proofs for my new short story collection, Desire Lines: Stories of Love and Geography have arrived from Oberon Press! Very interesting to go over the text after several…
Oberon Press just sent me the page proofs for my new short story collection: Desire Lines: Stories of Love and Geography. So correcting them is the task for today. Yay!
Paul Krugman talks about commuting, public transportation, sprawl and equality today in Stranded by Sprawl. It reminded me of the time many, many years ago when I was a reporter…
This morning was a good one for a walk on the wild side–that is in the Champs des possibles, the old city yard which has now become a delightful going-back-to-basics…
Who says that Grandmas aren’t useful. Jeanne has a fever so she’s chez nous today. As a consequence lots of stories are being read, but not much writing done.
Are you reading for a flying, pen-throwing, book pounding female defender of education in Pakistan? It seems the world must be because a new series to be broadcast in Pakistan…
The little arrow is pointing to the Earth in this photograph taken from the space probe Cassini from Saturn’s neighborhood. Makes our problems seem pretty inconsequential, in the (very) big…
Former US Foreign Service Officer Steven Kelly has an interesting comment on the results of open borders in The New York Times today. He notes that thousands and thousands of…
The New York Times has a nice story about sustainability at McGill and elsewhere.
