Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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Hey, United States. Remember how during the War of 1812 you burned Toronto to the ground? No? Don’t remember that? Canadians know this history, how after Toronto (known at time as York) lay in smoking ruin, they headed south and fully torched Washington DC. Yeah. They did. Remember how at the start of World War…
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I’ve had a manuscript sitting in a folder for a while, a long while. Sometimes a writer knows a problem exists in the story, but can’t quite identify it. Every now and then I’d get the manuscript out and dip into various chapters seeking clues. Then one day last summer, it came to me. I’d…
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I think of the Canadian artists known as the Group of Seven in the same way I think of the Hudson River School, the artists who romanticized the stunning iconic landscapes of the United States in the 19th Century. Think Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Cole. The Group of Seven were also landscape painters, but working…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 