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Farewell to The Juice
In 1995, when anyone mentioned OJ, no one thought they were talking about orange juice. Everyone knew they were referring to O.J. Simpson, the famous…
Apr 14
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March 2024
Being Lost
A friend who lives in a large northern city recently wrote saying she’d hired a local contractor to make some repairs to her house. She’d tried the…
Mar 22
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February 2024
Comma Sense
I recently borrowed a book from the San Miguel public library; About Face, a mystery novel by Donna Leon. As I read, I noticed there were tiny blotches…
Feb 18
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January 2024
The Abominable Fantasy
“What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” This dubious bit of wisdom, described on YourStory, India’s entrepreneurial website, as a “powerful statement…
Jan 28
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Wayne Grady
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Telling It Slant
Over the holidays, some friends asked me if I was working on anything, and I confessed that I had just completed a novel. I said I would most likely…
Jan 14
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December 2023
Small Things
Today I found an epigraph for my new novel. It is a quotation from Arundhati Roy’s, The God of Small Things: “Little events, ordinary things, smashed…
Dec 29, 2023
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Why Do We Live Where We Live?
Talk of emigration and immigration have taken on heightened immediacy for my wife and I. We live half of each year in Mexico and half in Canada. We’re…
Dec 12, 2023
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November 2023
AI, AI, Captain
The recent goings-on within OpenAI last week reminded me of an article I read several years ago, when self-driving vehicles were still in the…
Nov 24, 2023
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Time Travellers
In her book of essays, Ordinary Wonder Tales, which I mentioned in my previous Substack, Emily Urquhart recounts the Japanese folk tale, “Urashima…
Nov 9, 2023
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Wayne Grady
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October 2023
Unknown Islands
Some books help to explain each other, and together elucidate something important in our lives. I recently came upon three of them. 1. In 1998, the…
Oct 9, 2023
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September 2023
About Faces
I’ve been thinking about faces lately. I wonder if we aren’t growing tired of looking at them. My thoughts along these lines were ignited by two…
Sep 5, 2023
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August 2023
Gall in the Family
Julian Barnes, in his Introduction to The Redstone Diary 2024: The Family Diary (excerpted recently in Harper’s), doesn’t have many good things to say…
Aug 15, 2023
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