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The Star Maker

One night when I had tasted bitterness I went out onto the hill.  Dark heather checked my feet.  Below marched the suburban street lamps.  Windows, their curtains drawn, were shut eyes, inwardly watching the...

Most interesting man in the world

That’s Peter Freuchen and his wife Dagmar Freuchen-Gale, in a photo taken by Irving Penn. Freuchen is a top candidate for the Most Interesting Man in the World. Standing six feet seven inches, Freuchen...

Welcome Christmas – bring your cheer!

Christmas is close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it is the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year is preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and...

Ready to write the great canadian novel

Refurbished my $10 fleamarket Underwood typewriter and I’m ready to write the great Canadian Novel.  What an amazing machine – pulleys, gears and connecting rods – all kinds of complicated machinery. All kinds of...

Why, I have a binder full of them

Mitt Romney’s bizarre gaffe that he got a “binder full of women” in the US Predential debate has gone viral.   But of course it turns out to be a complete lie. If you...