Bookish ButchI am a bookish butch in my very early fifties. I live in Montréal and always have. I used to run a small used bookstore. Reading keeps me sane. My latest jiggie is photography, book project in the works, living the dream
Good art originates not from the desire to show off but from the desire to show yourself. Good art always comes from our desperate desire to breathe, to be seen, to be loved. In everyday life, we are used to seeing only the shiny outer layer of folks. Art makes us less lonely because it […]
Good morning all, another scorcher on the horizon, 2020 will not only be, the Summer of Coronavirus, it might also be the Summer, we melted đŸ™‚ Been a busy week, lots of wrapping my head, around, stuff, understanding my job. I love it, my job, it’s early days , at the figuring out stage. I […]
Good morning everyone, It’s a grey day here in, my beautiful ugly. The breeze is lifting the curtains, it’s pleasant. I am sitting on the couch, working. The cat woke me, very early, he’s bad that way. He started at .. not quite sure what time, actually, but, by 6h30, I had given up, on […]
Good day to you all, it’s a cloudy hazy one, here in my beautiful ugly. It’s been a helluvah week. Emotional highs and lows, a roller coaster. Yesterday, I took the metro, it was the first time, since March 14th! I live in Verdun, it is an interesting , urban neighbourhood, has pretty much all […]
Good morning everyone. After six days of melting, exhausting heat, we now have breezy weather. Breezy weather is my favourite, I can walk, I can think, I like breezy weather. I need to think, I need to work, I need to write. A few months ago, I put an end to what had been, a […]
Hello everyone, If you live anywhere, near the beautiful ugly, Toronto, Boston, New York City, you know, we are melting, crazy friggin’ heat. In this pandemic year, we are, here, in Montreal, into our second, major heat wave, and the Summer solstice, was yesterday!! I am thinking this, Summer will be challenging, pandemic, dodging the […]
Hello everyone, lovely breezy warm day, out here, in my beautiful ugly. My friend Jen, says everything I write starts with the weather, I tell her it is my birthright as a Canadian:-) She doesn’t mean it critically it’s just that, as an American she isn’t obsessed with the weather, we all have our National […]
Hello all, it’s a lovely day, here in my beautiful ugly, sunny, warm, perfect. Been a good week, got lots of ideas, percolating, still getting to know, the wonderful woman, that serendipity, put in my path, I am crazy about her, happy sigh. Spent lots of time, with my mom, to us togetherness is watching […]
Hello all, hope you are all well. The heat wave is over, we can breathe again. The cool windy weather, is soothing after, the oppressive heat, Canadians, the world’s most, weather obsessive people. Our national unifier, from coast to coast to coast, more even than, hockey or beer, the first thing you say, to someone, […]