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April 2004

  • An article, in the pipe

    Grandpa gripped my hand as I leaned over his hospital bed. There wasn’t much time. With the back of his other hand, he swept aside his oxygen mask and struggled to speak. “Remember: Love!”…

  • Good today

    I write less here when I’m meditating more. Not sure what that means. I think it was Mordecai Richler who said that writing was his meditation. My meditation technique is Vipassana, a non-sectarian lifestyle…

  • I want to move here

    Check out Laugharne, Wales. Beaches like PEI. Never snows. Seven pubs. 2000 people. One of Wales’ largest used bookstores. 100+ kids (and young parents). Did I mention it doesn’t snow? Take a tour of…

  • Wales of a time

    I just spent 6 days in Wales, the land of my ancestors — story-tellers, miners, musicians, dreamers. I managed to trace my mother’s side of my family back to its origins in a tiny…