One of my boiler plate tests for determining if I will read a novel is the first and last…
I had lunch today at the Sylvia Hotel here in Vancouver with friends who were friends of Mark Budgen, a writer who died a…
My fine ex-student David Macgillivray visited me today, the day after my melancholic birthday. It…
My understanding of S&M has been something that has eluded me since I discovered its existence.
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (8 June 1625–14 September 1712) was an Italian mathematician…
I have written of friendship and the loss of it here and here but it has been much in my thoughts of late. In that previous…
There is a little girl in the photograph below who was born in San Diego. Her father was a Basque jai-alai player and her mother was…
I have a project. I have an important project. It involves a very good friend who…