Made in Montreal

Every poem is a partner with the poet in the dance of creation. Are they two? Are they one? Does he make it, does it make him? Or the two ma...

Outside the Loyola Chapel at Concordia University, this rowan tree is full of berries; after the first snowfall, I was surprised that mo...

And it was at that age... Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. ...

Continuing my search for "holy wells," here is a view of water appearing through the earth and snow in Loyola Park in ...

Truth is not happy, cannot make us happy or feel joy; if truth were happy, none of us would lie, none of us would dispute the others tr...

This quotation, from C.G. Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections , was published in Harvey Shepherd’s “A Note From the Co-President” column in...

Here we are, walking on a winter day in Notre Dame de Grace. Quebec may be the most secular place in North America, but there ...

Someone had big plans to build on the site of the old Motel Raphael, just off Highway 2 & 20, the St. Jacques exit. Anywhere else th...

Decarie Square is home to various stores, a Winners, Sear's Warehouse, a motor vehicle bureau, a big Corrections Canada parole offic...

This scultpure, "Transcendence," by Jack Harman is located on the campus of  the University of British Columbia, outside of ...

Located on the Loyola campus of Concordia University, outside of the Hingston Hall residence, is Walter Fuhrer's sculpture, "Tr...

Painted on the side of a former IGA grocery store next to the Montreal West train station and just a block from where Artie Gold used to li...

October 2012 In an article, “On the relation of analytical psychology to poetic art,” Dr. C.G. Jung has set forth an hypothesis in regard to...

This is a popular restaurant just off St. Patrick in Pointe St. Charles.

Last summer, I wrote here about holy wells in Ireland and in Montreal. Here is the effort of the City of Montreal to deal wit...

It is a constant struggle to write from one’s vision when there are so many people who oppose what one has to say. It is a constant strugg...

I've walked in Cote des Neiges Cemetery many times, including winter when some roads were closed due to the snow. I know it seems ...