{This was composed on a flight and saved for posting on a slow day…} I’ve been browsing through the movies selections, planning my entertainment for the next few hours, as well as the return trip. Under ‘Documentaries’ is My Perestroika, the story of 5 people from the last generation to be brought up behind the…
I don’t like writing book reviews. I like reading books and telling you I’ve read them, and maybe giving a thumbs up or down. Reviewing them requires mental effort that is better spent starting a new one. Nevertheless, I need to earn my little piece of blog space, so I will write something. The Emperor…
On a flight not long ago I watched The Way with Martin Sheen. It was a moderately good movie about a middle-aged American who walks the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain, in honour of his son who had just died. I’ve had an interest in doing some or all of the Camino for quite a while. More…
The title of this post could be the name of my blog! What do you think? Movie recommendation coming up… On the flight to Montreal (5 hours) I watched 2 movies: Goin’ Down the Road (1970) – “Produced for $27,000… among the last great flowerings of what might be called NFB downer naturalism.” (Isn’t that…
I am packing for a 4-day trip to Montreal. Don’t need any of my usual fashion items, since I’ll be there for a meeting of a bunch of engineers, and they will NOT expect any style from me. Except maybe the usual “urban utilitarian” as my friend Sue labelled it. (She is famous for Florida-retirement-villa capris.) I’ll be…
Some of you know how close I am to the fashion world. And those people will know the extent of the gap! However, I do have some claims to fashion fame – starting with Barbara Tfank , who has become justly famous for dressing Michelle Obama very elegantly and now Adele. Last year I put…
I enjoy unbuttered popcorn as an evening snack – generously sprinkled with Spike seasoning. I just googled “spike” and had to go to page 5 of the search results to find my family’s favourite all purpose seasoning. We’ve been studying the variability in popcorn efficiency – defined as the percentage of kernels that fully pop into edible…
. . . . . . . . . . . . Often on weekend days we walk to the beach and around the peninsula. It is a 1.5 to 2.5 hour trip, depending on the diversions. There are frequently bald eagles around. They are the official national bird of the United States, where they’ve…
