Porn again: The slippery slope
Bob Morrissey This is about porn. Be assured everything you read from here on in is based on hearsay and research. My hands are clean....
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Earl Fowler
Mar 25, 20213 min read
The best-laid plans of mice and amens
Bob Morrissey Don’t you hate it when this happens? You’re in the middle of prayer, and out of nowhere comes a sexy thought. It happened...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 24, 20213 min read
A place for Mom
Bob Morrissey This is for you, Mum, even though you probably still blame me for moving you into that assisted-living facility. Look, you...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 24, 20213 min read
A house of cards (and other horrors)
Bob Morrissey I had just returned from a religious retreat, when my house-sitter greeted me at the door. Her face was puffy; her eyes...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 24, 20214 min read
The past leaves a calling card
Earl Fowler Of the hundreds of hockey, baseball, Beatles and Monkees trading cards that were once my proudest possessions, I’m down to...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 23, 20212 min read
Are you there God? It’s me, Bob
Bob Morrissey One day last week when the Canadiens were idle and the supper dishes done, I tuned into the fireplace channel and thought...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 22, 20212 min read
Close encounter of the Covid kind
Bob Morrissey It’s been almost a year to the day since a gimpy left knee and a knock on the door snapped me from my nightly napmare. Just...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 20, 20212 min read
Raising Cane at 78
Bob Morrissey My cane. For the past five years we’ve had a semi long-distance relationship, but suddenly my back problems have turned us...
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David Sherman
Mar 9, 20214 min read
To Eat is Human, but Lunch is Divine
By David Sherman I want to have lunch. With friends. At the basement Korean joint on Monkland. The owner makes a great beef noodle soup...
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David Sherman
Mar 4, 20213 min read
Landscaping the Manscape. Really?
By David Sherman She stares at me every day, sometimes several times a day. So beguiling, lying on her belly, giving me a shot of her...
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Earl Fowler
Feb 27, 20215 min read
Devine Revelation
Earl Fowler If there was one guarantee during the federal and provincial election campaigns I covered during my decade as a newspaper...
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Earl Fowler
Feb 22, 20217 min read
What you get out of it
“It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.” — Tom Lehrer, then 37 Earl Fowler Fellow gets to...
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Earl Fowler
Feb 4, 20212 min read
i liked it better when there were just a caribou and the queen on quarters
Earl Fowler Hear power saws as I cross the tracks. Two men building a deck. My uncle lost several fingers to a saw. Had to pick them up...
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Earl Fowler
Jan 30, 20214 min read
The Musings of the Night
Earl Fowler Franz Kafka hasn’t much to fear from whomever has been in charge of the content of my dreams over the last week or so, but...
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David Sherman
Jan 27, 20214 min read
Rural Winters: Long, White, Expensive Risky and Exceedingly Beautiful
By David Sherman We’re not in the wilds of the Yukon, living on an ice floe, hunting polar bears for food and fat for candles. We’re in...
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David Sherman
Jan 20, 20213 min read
What's That I Smell? Could it be a Slight Whiff of Justice?
By David Sherman A dear old friend and wise man assured me justice doesn’t exist. I wouldn’t argue with him, then or now. He knows better...
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fareed20
Jan 12, 20213 min read
The Way the ball bounces
By Fred A. Reed Scenes from a Southern California boyhood – one of an occasional series I invented Triangle Ball in 1956, my last year as...
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David Sherman
Jan 12, 20214 min read
Power-Mad Teens and Surly Machines Have Taken Over the World
By David Sherman Machines and teens keep telling me what to do and I’m sick of it. My computer, in harmony with my tablet and phone, are...
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fareed20
Dec 28, 20203 min read
New Year’s Day
By Fred A. Reed If we’re lucky there will be a fireworks display here in Agadir on New Year’s Eve, just like every year. The rockets and...
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David Sherman
Dec 20, 20205 min read
De-dogging the Dog: A Cautionary Tale
By David Sherman Love dogs. Had a few of them over the years. They can be irritating, messy, noisy, expensive, destructive and come with...
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