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I like books like this. Hidden history doesn’t follow the kings and queens route. I’m biased in that way because those are not my people. Have little to do with what I know. James Crawford suggests we look and see. ‘Just how much of the past still lives with in the present. An invitation to explore the unexplored and make pilgrimage to the lost and overlooked. An invitation to ‘use the country itself, as its own map’ Our mind doesn’t need to put...

I’ve read bits of Joan Didion’s writing and decided to read more. South And West translates into two sections on ‘Notes on the South’ and ‘California Notes’. She explains: ‘John and I were living in Franklin Avenue in Los Angeles. I had wanted to revisit the South, so we flew there for a month in 1970. The idea was to start in New Orleans and from there we had no plan…I seem to remember John drove.’ Her autobiographical impressions resurfaced in...

This week two pieces in particular lodged in my brain and wouldn't let go. Poem of the Week is onemorething's beautiful and thoughtful 'The Loneliness of a Cuckoo'. We're used to thinking of them as the bad guys of nest-stealing, but this poem contemplates what identity means when you don't have your own place in the world: The Loneliness of a Cuckoo | ABCtales Story of the Week is Mark Say's 'Dinner with Adele'. It's far more than just another...

I am presently sifting through about 500 of my own poems looking to compile a collection of about one hundred pages and 50+ pieces. It'll be self-published and only available on the 'Zon. Theoretically speaking - after all, you could read them on here if you wanted to look for them - what would you pay for a good quality paperback? I'm looking to set the price at £4.99, less than a fiver, Egad! Sarcasm and humourous posts will be ignored (unless...

My brother came home yesterday evening after two more weeks in hospital. He looks good, he looks strong. Thank you for all the wishes and prayers, may God be with you. Greetings! Tom Brown

Richard L. (Laurent) Provencher is my name; born Sept. 10, 1942 in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada. Married Esther (Ogden) March 27, 1975 in Sarnia, Ontario. Three of our children live in Ontario and British Columbia - our youngest son age 52 passed away in 2021 from lung problems. My wife & I live in Truro, Nova Scotia. My brain aneurysm in 1999 retired me from the working world, three months after my job of 14 years was phased out. Years of...