Jackie Lewis was born in London, England. She inherited her ability from a family of healers and inventors. “My grandfather invented solar energy devices when he was in the deserts of Egypt in WWII,” she told me in an east end café. As a kid, Jackie would read minds. She read her mother’s mind, [...]
In a recent blog post of mine “Books and Literary Snobs”, I began it by saying the following: “Since the emergence of the internet, online publishing and the plethora of books now available to us in the world of books, a second disturbing breed has emerged – the literary snob. While thanks to small press [...]
Determination is a wonderful quality except when found in one’s opposition. This morning a great joke was posted to me at Facebook. It was a fake CNN article about the end of the world, probably thanks to April Fool’s Day. The important thing was that the end of the world did not stop the journalists from getting their [...]
Joanna Clapps Herman tells it like it was for so many Italians growing up in America in the twentieth century. Every story becomes more telling than the next—what a grounding read. Here, Herman feeds and waters memories now that those who made those memories are nearly all gone and all the important old ones are [...]
The Mayan civilization captured the attention of some folks recently with the “end-of-the-world” predictions caused by the ancient Mayan calendar. You can believe the doomsday criers or not, but the fact that the Maya were pretty smart cookies is something that most archaeologists do agree upon. The Maya were interested in mathematics and astronomy and [...]
Ever thought about revisiting a piece you wrote years ago? I am right now, and it’s scary. At the time when I originally wrote the piece in question back in 1995, spending my Friday nights conceiving a fresh chapter for my own entertainment and that of my friends, I thought it was brilliant. But then [...]
I am a simple gardener–I spade, sow, seed, water, then I plant and wait. Loving variety, I am also an eclectic gardener, never like Secret Garden’s Frances Hodgson Bennett’s garden where three hundred coral-pink roses bloomed. Three hundred roses on my fifty by seventy-five foot plot would require me to move my house, although I [...]
The old arts funding model in Canada must change because it only benefits those who are connected. The government should not fund the author, musician, or filmmaker. The the rules are rewritten, the government can actually save money and stimulate an industry, or the economy itself. How? In the past Oprah, or Simon, would [...]
That same fucking nightmare!!! - ’Christ another rainy Monday and another fucking hangover!’ His words steamed up the window, as he pulled back a smoke-clogged net curtain onto a street of striding legs. Legs reminded him of scissors and umbilical separation. Barbra had walked out on him after the hottest afternoon of sex and laughter they’d [...]
This short article is designed to show how different two editors can be. As described in my article “My best day,” my friends Paula Shene and Gwen Steel told me of Angie’s DIARY. At this time I was trying to get an article in a magazine called Indies Unlimited. I sent the article in question [...]
