“Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea forever.”— Will Self A quote like this… Read More
I haven’t been on a bus nearly as much since I retired a few months. But for years, I took the bus to work most weekdays, and had things down so pat that I knew… Read More
“There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.”— E.M. Forster The British novelist’s astute observation was published decades after he wrote it, in the posthumous novel Maurice, arguably his most… Read More
Less than two weeks ago, Paddy Daly announced he was done as host from VOCM’s Open Line, as much of a political institution in Newfoundland and Labrador as the House of Assembly itself. I mentioned… Read More
I was stumbling around the Wayback Machine (the internet archive) for something connected to my old blog, and linked out to a former post from the official Agatha Christie website. This is from a capture… Read More
“I read some excellent scientific research that said that as men and women get older, we get happier. I’ve noticed that in myself: sometimes I’ll be reading something, and I’ll be smiling like an idiot…. Read More
In the movie Bend It Like Beckham, there are sequences where the young girls playing soccer football seem like they’re about to fly into the air. They’re moving at speed, there’s joy all around, and… Read More
Happy weekend. Here are some things I’ve been looking at. Not all that long after everyone hopped on Facebook in the mid-2000s, we saw a phenomenon play out: people indicated they were planning to go… Read More
“We can’t just stay with the old. We need to acknowledge and still refer to and still play and be connected to older artists. But you can’t just do that because we’re all dying… Even… Read More
St. John’s has a complicated relationship with winter. First, it seems like it will never end. We’re weeks away from that period — the time of year when the rest of the country is bursting… Read More
It’s a snowy Friday, and I wish you could smell my kitchen. I have two pots on the stove, filled with chicken bones and water. By the end of it, we’ll have stock and plenty… Read More
“In America the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs forever and ever.”— Oscar Wilde Today’s quote comes from a posthumously published lecture Wilde gave called Decorative Art in America. It appeared in print… Read More
There’s been such a dark cloud over billionaire Jeff Bezos and his handling of the Washington Post, and for such a long time, that it’s perhaps difficult to remember there was a much happier relationship… Read More
“How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.”—… Read More
Two weeks ago, I launched this website, and with it a revived form of Dot Dot Dot, a blog I first started, um, 22 years ago. (Two weeks, 22 years; time is a construct, right?)… Read More