A Scanner Lightly

A Scanner Lightly

I just got back from a relaxing trip back home to see my folks in Forest. It seems that with each visit we spend more time reminiscing about “The Good Old Days”, telling our usual stories that start with “Do you remember when…” or pulling...
“We Read to Know We Are Not Alone” – C.S. Lewis

“We Read to Know We Are Not Alone” – C.S. Lewis

  This is perhaps one of my most favourite quotes from a brilliant re-telling of C.S. Lewis’ later life as a teacher at Oxford, the kleenex-required movie Shadowlands. In the movie Lewis shares the quote above with a serious young university student who...
The Joy of Reading

The Joy of Reading

You must be wondering why I am featuring one of my arty snaps of the iconic, architecturally stunning Guggenheim Museum in New York? I won’t keep you in suspense long… Many of you know that I have been toiling away in the publishing industry for some time...
All That Glitters…

All That Glitters…

I never thought I’d say there’s such a thing as too many adventures…too much vagabonding… but after The Great Via Rail Adventure, Christmas back home and the start of a new job coupled with that other holiday tradition, “The Christmas...
“To Make An End is to Make a Beginning” – T.S. Eliot

“To Make An End is to Make a Beginning” – T.S. Eliot

On this New Year’s Eve I thought T.S. Eliot’s quote from his poem “Little Gidding” an appropriate title for this my last post of 2011.  The section of the poem that is quoted on New Year’s Eve goes as follows: “For last year’s...