Tuesday, August 31, 2010

25 Days in August - Diary of a family's journey in the Holyland

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WEEK 2 DAY 8 - Wednesday We finally managed to get the early start we desired, out the door by 7:04 local time. Amazing how motivating your ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

25 Days in August - Diary of a family's journey in the Holyland

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(Participants: Husband, wife and four daughters ages 16, 14, 11 and 5) WEEK 1 DAY 1-2, Wednesday & Thursday It's been an exciting an...

Gotlieb stories

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I hadn't heard from my elusive old friend Maurice Gotlieb for some time. I began to wonder if he was well and whether in fact he was sti...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff and other stories by Joseph Epstein

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Joseph Epstein is one of my favourite writers. One of the under appreciated masters of American belles lettres. Even as his fiction and essa...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The Rocky Mountain Locust Plague of 1875

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A swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts streams overhead for five days, creating a living eclipse of the sun. It is a superorganism composed of 1...
Thursday, July 8, 2010

"No place in the Quebec dream"

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A bit of a row over at the Cyberpresse. Montreal filmmaker Jacob Tierney had the chutzpah to tell it like it is here in Quebec culturally-sp...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Enough to be angry about

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This review of a recent poetry collection makes a really interesting point: There's just not enough anger in today's writing. Not en...