Good-bye Kate . . .
Another stellar Canadian woman gone, another massive loss to our cultural life. Kate McGarrigle has died. I’m off to listen to Matapedia, and then perhaps to move on to listening to some Martha and some…
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Olympic viewing . . .
Years ago, looking on-line for some background on Dionne Brand in preparation for teaching one or other of her poems, I found this little gem: #30, it’s apparently titled, from her Winter Epigrams. I adopted…
View PostFinishing the Year: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Patricia Cornwell’s The Scarpetta Factor
Oh dear! Once again, I am woefully behind in recording my reading. At the moment, I’m reading Penelope Lively’s The Family Album, having finished Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood as my first 2010…
View PostRemembering P.K. Page — An Inspiring Life
Canada has lost a national treasure, a literary grand dame, as CBC terms her (sadly leaving out her considerable achievements as a visual artist, a painter — an omission rectified in this later CBC report…
View PostWhatever the weather — how to smile anyway . . .
On the official Environment Canada WeatherOffice page for my city right now, the symbol above is followed by another rain icon, and another, and another — it’s all rain, all the way into the future…
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