Rusty Ring

« Un mauvais film, on quitte la salle, mais un mauvais siècle? On le subit, on lui tourne le dos ou on le corrige. » Félix Leclerc ...

New Year's is upon us again, and as usual I'm in a reflective mood. This time I've got the Cowboys Fringants' Ici-bas ru...

« Il n'y a rien de plus heureux qu'un être humain qui est devenu ce qu'il était déjà. » Le si regretté Serge Bouchard. (E...

Here's another great example of a video that adds striking dimension to the song it accompanies. Not that it isn't fine as it is; ...

« Ce qu'il faut de saleté pour faire une fleur! » Félix Leclerc (English translation here .) (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons...

My mom died three nights ago. I had been looking after her for several years, managed her home hospice daily over the last six month...

(Found this all alone in the middle of the swamp that has figured in many recent posts. The white trunk that so gleams 'mid...

(After living in Québec, where it's 40 below now and will remain until May, I'm always amazed to meet this sort of thing in ...

(Ah, les fois que j'ai déneigé ça. Québec, tu me manques encore.)

In the late 40s, a British Colonial Service officer named John Main began to frequent a Malaysian ashram. There, in meditation, the d...

One of my Franciscan brothers in Québec, a friar named Henri, presented seminars on Christian practice to groups of Catholic seniors – o...

Scalding days here on the North Coast put me in mind of a great simple delicacy, the sublime sunshine tea. Nothing beats this stuff on a ...

Click on photo for a closer look There is no food as perfect as rice and beans. It's nutritious and filling (if the rice is brown)...

It's springtime, the annual Woodstock of foragers, so I'm going to post another wild edibles tip while the news is hot. And i...