Supply and Demand

I started my last post, Mid Winter Rant, with a different idea than how it ended up.  It happens often that my writing takes on a life of its own. It directs itself in a way. It’s not pretty by any means, the syntax is usually clunky and the vocabulary limited, but a few quick…

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Mid Winter

Mid Winter Rant This isn’t a complaint about weather. I live in Canada along with 36.71 million other people. Here’s something interesting. A whopping 21 %  of my fellow residents were not born in Canada  ……yes, you read that right. Chances are they come from a part of the world that either has mild winters or…

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A Day Of Love

Here we go. A post about nothing. Well, not exactly nothing. With St. Valentine’s day here I’ve decided to have a thoughtful look at the day of love. My ex had no use for “Hallmark Holidays”. Same with my girlfriend, Kim. Fine with me. Even if they did think those occasions were a big deal I’d…

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Conclusion to Loch Morrison

And finally, the conclusion of Loch Morrison As shattered as my ego was and as jumpy as my nerves were, I was getting a little peckish. I headed to the kitchen to see what was left over from dinner. I already knew the main fridge had died but that a small portable one had been…

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2018 Tour

Some Thoughts On Concert Year 2018 A watershed year of sorts with Gord and myself celebrating a combined 145 years of membership in the human race. Our birthdays are one day apart calendrically plus 15 years chronologically. Significant birthdays they were for both of us, he turning the phenomenal age of 80 and me reaching…

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year Where does the time go? In May it will be three years since I started this blog. It began humbly as a chronicle of our celebrated first UK-Ireland tour since 1981. Friends and relatives were on a mailing list for the messages and updates I sent out every two or three days. I enjoyed writing…

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Dating Game 3

If you’ve been following the blog you might recall that I did a couple of posts about online dating. Two girls named Sue, one a cousin, the other a cousin in law, encouraged me to have a look at some dating sites after I suddenly became single at the beginning of my seventh decade. One of the Sues…

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Belfast 1981

Hello everybody  I promised a while ago to continue the story of our trip in 1981 to an embattled, torn and weary Ireland. Let’s go there.  Dublin          Republic of Ireland         May 13  1981 It was the day after the riot. We did a show at the Boxing Arena in…

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Loch Morrison

The Family Dynamic Let me make a brash general statement. Everything interesting in life involves the attempt to resolve conflict, to find harmony in dissonance, to bring order to chaos…….. generally to find balance or stasis. All the temporal arts, music, poetry, literature etc. use this push and pull, this tease of fulfillment, as a way to provide narrative and…

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Cottage Life

Mikey Goes On Vacation I’m heading north to a special lake in the famous Muskoka area of central Ontario. Muskoka is Toronto’s traditional summer getaway being only 140 kms from the city limits. I’ll be spending a week in a rented cottage with my family which consists of two sisters, a brother, two nieces and two nephews. Also staying with…

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