I chose this word for my blog collection because it encompasses the kaleidoscopic nature of my interests and topics. A prism is “one whose faces are parallel to the vertical axis.” (Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, 1969) So, while I am the axis, my experiences are dispersed by the planes in different directions.
Under covers The Gift of Reading Part 3
Blog 11 Feb 2018 Under covers… BOOKS The Gift of Reading Part 3 Does anyone else waffle the way I have done when it comes to abandoning a book? A couple of days after examining my thoughts on reading (3 Feb18), the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) interviewed 3...
Under covers Part 3
Blog 3 Feb 2018 Books: Under Covers Part 3 Life is too precious for a vexing read. For most of my life I would never stop reading a book before finishing it. Recently, I've been able to do it without guilt. Life is too short to continue reading a book that is...
Books: Under Covers
Blog 2 Feb 2018 Under Covers Part 1 If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. - Ezra Pound My relief that books have not succumbed to the internet age is fathomless. Not only are books still being written, printed and read, even digital and...
Books: The Gift of Reading Part 2
Blog 2 Feb 2018 Under covers… BOOKS: The Gift of Reading Part 2 What sensations course through you when you reach for a new book? What treasure lies within? Reading confronts us with ideas, propositions and positions we agree with, oppose or never contemplated in a...
Books: Part 1 What’s not to like?
Blog 26 Jan 2018 The Passionate Palate: Now for something under covers… My parents read to us when we were little. We would all squeeze onto the couch and listen to my father and my mother read delightful stories. In the afternoons, we would be sent off for...
TRAVELS: In the beginning…
Blog 25 Jan 18 TRAVELS: In the beginning... When life hands you a ticket, take it. The first overseas posting my father received after completing his training as a foreign service officer in the U.S. was Vietnam, part of French Indochina. He had already become...
The passionate palate: Now for something entirely original. Food: The pleasure and the glory
Blog 24 Jan 18 FOOD 1 Do you remember the first food that bowled you over? How old were you at the time? Where were you? Most important, what was that special mix of aroma, color, texture, flavour that made you take notice? Despite having a family of excellent cooks,...