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Going South to Heal

My ever disorder Cystic Fibrosis, of typical ΔF508 form, hasn’t ever been a subject of conversation for the scribe in me, for a number of

An Obligation to Explain Textbook Censorship

It’s out finally, an updated history of how the Government of Ontario misused its responsibility for public and Catholic school textbook evaluation to influence curriculum.

Like a Winter Sun

Why recall arguably discordant contingencies? Why choose to remember the so-called bad stuff? Why not stick to heroism? Because I’m writing for adults. War isn’t

We Should Give Them Their Dignity

There is a closeted subject that may be emerging. It has been hidden away since long before my mother took me to see

Eddie and the Art Deco, Architectural Tripping to Niagara

Saturday, July 22nd my partner Susan and I visited the Niagara Region, like we sometimes do to pick up mail from the USPS box we

Attendance Expressed, Tales to Tell

Director Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Bernau-based Bauhaus School was pressured to close in 1933—un-German thought some homely Nazis—after it had already existed in Weimar

Happy Miles Davis Day

A Twitter personality who I hadn’t known before today reminded me of the late Miles Davis’ birthday…on May 26th. That’s a big deal for me. Thank

Grandfather [warrior of the north] by Paul Tompkins

J. E. H. MacDonald’s Aurora, Georgian Bay (1931) was selected to frame and present Harold Paul “Pork” Tompkins’ poem Grandfather. A similar, not the same,

Therapy, Part 1

Don’t let me say Dad was a drunk Primarily he was a bright man Math, science and history He’d have learned engineering as a kid

Strange This by Paul Tompkins

To love a friend Is to lose a friend Seems strange this way When lovers can not be friends Friends cannot be lovers What a

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