Among the many characters I play: husband, father, son, retired elementary school teacher, writer, Cape Bretoner, lover of hot tea and, above all else, a gentleman. I strive to make a positive difference in the lives of others. In Life, I have chosen to be kind.
My youngest daughter turned sixteen years of age this past year. It is hard for my heart to believe that “the one who completed our family” when she was born… Read More »The Great Canadian Road Trip…Song #89/250: Have a Baby With Me by Daniel Caesar
Editors Note: It has been a long time since I published one of my typical music-themed posts. There is a reason for that. A little over a year ago I… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #81/250: Let’s Dance To Joy Division by The Wombats
We live in a potentially wondrous time. The whole of the world’s knowledge is available at our fingertips. We needn’t wonder any more about anything. All of the answers to… Read More »The Great Canadian Road Trip: Song #88/250: Where Have All The Good People Gone? by Sam Roberts Band
If there was a “Mount Rushmore” for Heavy Metal bands then I propose that Iron Maiden be one of the four bands preserved there in stone. *(Judas Priest, Black Sabbath… Read More »The Stars of Stage and Screen…Song #75/250: The Trooper by Iron Maiden from the Original Soundtrack of the Television Series Stranger Things
Rosalia is a Spanish singer. In 2025 she released an album called Lux. When the year-end lists were cobbled together by all of the major music magazines, many critics declared… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #80/250: Berghain by Rosalia
Adam Ruzzo is a Canadian singer, songwriter, adventurer, storyteller, amateur historian and guitarist who travels the highways, byways and waterways of this great land of ours drawing inspiration from what… Read More »The Great Canadian Road Trip…Song #87/250: Little Boats Sway by Adam Ruzzo
It is getting so difficult to keep up with the daily tsunami of outrageous statements and acts coming out of MAGA America that we hardly know where to direct our… Read More »Who’s Punk? What’s the Score?….Song #24/24: Dear Coach’s Corner by Propagandhi
Way back in my bachelor boy days, a group of friends and I formed an international cooking club. Each month we would select a country and then we would each… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #79/250: Down Under by Men At Work
The Shawshank Redemption is one heck of a great movie. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards at the time of its release (including Best Picture, Best Actor for Tim… Read More »The Stars of Stage and Screen…Song #74/250: Duettino: Sull’Aria (from the Opera The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart) by Edith Mathis and Gundula Janowitz from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for the Film The Shawshank Redemption
NOTE: Today’s book review was inspired by another book entitled Letters. That book was a memoir of scientist and storyteller Dr. Oliver Sacks, told through a lifetime of his personal… Read More »From the Library of Dr. Oliver Sacks: Book Review #11: Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer