Rusty Ring

(In honour of Thanksgiving.) that I was a child before helmets and helicopters Internet radio brown rice pinto beans c...

(I recently captured this scene in a part of the county that was urbanised well after my own stretch of woods. It made me nostalgic. Noti...

"It is better to light one candle than to hit the wax museum with a flamethrower." - Wisdom I collected from the wall of a uni...

(Noticed this saw blade in the maintenance yard of a local parks department. Through the 1970s, forestry was one of the "F's...

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; ...

"Life is cause and effect. And you certainly are no stranger to the cause." So says the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, ...

I'm suddenly reminded of the endless dithering in the model kit section at Sears, before choosing the next addition to the epic W...

"Sit on it."

"As my gramma, Nana Roseannadanna, used to say: it's always somethin'." Gilda Radner (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia ...

(I've never been a stain guy. I don't know why; boatbuilders just tend to prefer oil or varnish. If we deny ourselves the na...

(Blue-ribbon reserve-grand Slim Whitman album collection, spied at last summer's county fair.)

In Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War , Edward Stourton drops a bombshell. He's talking about how radio – the...

Back in the 70s, a spoken-word performance of Desiderata became a sensation in North America. Soon everyone from Pierre Trudeau to Mr....

"Do you realize it's three o'clock in the morning, and my daughter... Jesus Christ, you're naked! I thought you said ...

This song holds a special place in my heart, because it held a special place in my practice when I first became a monk. As is often the...

(Until it's too late. #thingsbuddhistmonksdontneed)

(Recently found this old school box of mine amongst my father's things; he'd stored loose hardware in it. I believe this dates ...

It's the old-man grump of my generation. Our fathers grumped that they had to walk to school, or work for our grandfathers, or fight ...

I was born on the crest of a tsunami of late-century self-help that's had a geological effect on our ability to think clearly. Th...

In 1975, British artists Brian Eno (a musician) and Peter Schmidt (a painter) developed a formal system for smashing "creative bl...