Life Sentences
Bryan Demchinsky, David Goldbloom, Steve Eadie, Barbara Black, Marianne Ackerman, Joe Neuhaus, Cynthia Davis, mark ableyPersonal Essays
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The Problem Solver
(BD photo)
One day in spring 2022, I was at the garage where my wife and I get our car serviced. We were changing our winter tires for summer ones. An oil change was part of the seasonal ritual.
It was sunny afternoon with a promise of th...
Decline and Fall?
The Palantine Hill in Rome: looking a little the worse for wear. (BD photo)
I hesitate to descend into commentary on the present state of the world, because there’s always so much of it going around. But the larder was bare this week, so h...
[COPY] Bad Trip, Good Story
John Banville makes Venice a place for an exploration of self. (Craftsmanship Magazine)
There are bad trips – we’ve all had them – where the place visited rises up to repudiate why we would ever want to leave home. And then there is Evelyn...
Bad Trip, Good Story
What I’m Reading
There are bad trips – we’ve all had them – where the place visited rises up to repudiate why we would ever want to leave home. And then there is Evelyn Dolman’s soul-crushing experience in Venice. And what fun it is to be...
A Cure for What Ails Us
Sudan in one of the places in conflict from which we must not turn away. (UNHCR)
Friend and colleague Mark Abley describes how he came to write Numb, a book for our times. It’s one of many works of non-fiction and poetry he has published o...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Former Montreal Gazette editor. Still writing, still editing.
I'm a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto who has retired from clinical practice and academic hospital life - so now I have more time to write.
Steve lives and writes in Hamilton ,Ontario. He has known Bryan since university when we lived across the hall from each other in residence and then shared an apartment. But that's another story.
Barbara Black Is a writer, broadcaster and museum docent in Dorval, Quebec.
Montreal-based writer of journalism, plays, novels and short stories. Her new novel Oyster will be published by Dundurn Press in February.
Joseph Neuhaus is a Montreal-based IT consultant specializing in enterprise software systems.
A software architect with over thirty years of experience in business-to-business systems, machine learning, and technical management.
Cynthia Davis is a retired art therapist who finds meaning in creative expression in diverse media including painting, film, ceramics and writing.
Mark Abley is a longtime Montrealer now living in Gananoque, Ontario. His book "Numb: The Politics of Overwhelm" will be launched on Thurs., May 28, at Pulp Books in Verdun.
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