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On Margaret Atwood’s Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

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John Robert Colombo: The Great Encourager

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Portrait of a Potter – Frances Ward (plus Brancusi, a Japanese word & the Book of Jeremiah)

The Japanese technique of Raku is Frances Ward’s favourite way of dealing with clay, cracks, and all.

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"I guess I have this instinct of who cares about our family… but I think it is interesting to look at this

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A Man in a Boat: Conrad Furey & Others

Living away [from Newfoundland] means I can focus on the memories more easily, there's less distraction. The years I spent growing up

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Private Identities

James Joyce’s fictional character Stephen Dedalus forges his identity in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by writing it.

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Robert Lax

He cares for words, and remembers his friends “like a sacred duty.”

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Reading as a Way of Life

I read, therefore, I am. I read in the doctor’s office, on the bus, in the bathroom.

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On the 16 Occasions When I’ve felt like a Real Writer

I’m standing in front of a stone church, dark and light limestone, smooth and ridged. I have my mother’s hand-knit Aran sweater

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An American Gift to the World: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes you need a foreigner or someone who feels himself to be an outsider, someone who takes nothing for granted, to see

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From Global Village to Global Membrane

We have made our tools, as Marshall McLuhan said years ago, and our tools have remade us.

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The Writer's Block - Page 2

On Margaret Atwood’s Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

John Robert Colombo: The Great Encourager

Portrait of a Potter – Frances Ward (plus Brancusi, a Japanese word & the Book of Jeremiah)

My Top Ten Canadian MoviesThe saddest story ever

A Man in a Boat: Conrad Furey & Others

Private Identities

Robert Lax

Reading as a Way of Life

On the 16 Occasions When I’ve felt like a Real Writer

An American Gift to the World: F. Scott Fitzgerald

From Global Village to Global Membrane

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