Made in Montreal

A favourite activity, watching honey bees foraging for nectar and pollen in flowers... here is the latest video on that.

Saying "Goodbye" to our friend Robert as he sets off in his Saab for home in Baltimore...

It's July 2, 2016 but feels like an early fall day, windy, grey sky, rain blowing in; cool until the sun comes out. Here is my grand...

Out walking in Montreal West when I made a detour back to my own neighbourhood, the borough of Notre Dame de Grace. Passing the old Rosed...

INTRODUCTION: NO LOOKING BACK NOW M ark McCawley, who died suddenly in April 2016, was an Edmonton-based writer, ...

Review of Sylvia Brinton Perera's  Queen Maeve and Her  Lovers: A Celtic Archetype of Ecstasy, Addiction, and  Healing . Carrowmare Boo...

Some thoughts on bad poems and fake poems : Fake poems are contrived, pretending to be the real thing. But a bad poem is just what it i...

Another year of living in one of the best countries in the world. Canada.

2226 Girouard Avenue is the door on the right leading to the upstairs flat A few years ago I decided to digitize my out-of-print books and m...

                         Until the lions have their own historians,                          the history of the hunt will always glorify ...

I once asked Aragon, the historian, how history was written. He said, "You have to invent it." When I wish as now to tell of ...

Soccer, baseball, exercise machines, wading pools for children, these and other activities are available at Loyola Park...

In a store window on Westminster Avenue this morning...

As of spring 2019 the Orchid Dry Cleaner (above) on Westminster Avenue has closed. The platform at Montreal West train station. ...

Squirrels screwing I will have to copy the essay here. Meanwhile,  Thank you to Mark McCawley for publishing this minimalist essay, "Po...

For a long time I have felt that some of us poets might be better served if we made our work available, online, and free. Of course, as long...

This is Beaubear Island, just off Newcastle and Chatham, NB;  Patrick Morrissy and some other members of the family worked here when they fi...

T his  is the history of the Morrissey family of Montreal during their residency at 2226 Girourd Avenue—it includes family history, ...

The Morrisey Family: Darrell, TL, Syd & Clara outside Hazelbrae, 85 Churchill Avenue, Westmount I've just posted my essay on Darrell...