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Let’s talk. And as the walrus says, about everything and anything as our fancy takes us—style for every day, the art and satisfaction of running a comfortable and welcoming home, the joy and work of entertaining at home, politics from a centre-right perspective…
…and even about what I do for a living: writing & rewriting, editing & proofreading technical documents, website text, promotional materials, novels and memoirs. In short, when getting the words right matters, Editor’s Ink is there to help.
“ ‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax―
Of cabbages—and kings―
And why the sea is boiling hot―
And whether pigs have wings.’ ”
The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
A house full of flowers, a family dinner & red necklaces
Flowers galoreWe came home to a message of flowers delivered and left with a neighbour—this beautiful bouquet for Mother’s Day. An easy gift, some might say, but the perfect gift for me because flowers throughout the house every day of the year makes me happy and our...
A walk in the deep past
I read and read and read, and become pickier and pickier and pickier in the books I deem worthy of my attention. My Christmas book list has had too many misses the last couple of years, with too many books not living up to their reviews. But one on my 2015 list lived...
What is a conservative?
In the Western world awash in left-liberals with their nanny-state interference in every nook and cranny of our lives, it becomes mandatory that I proclaim, “I am a conservative.” And I accept that my historical duty, as William F. Buckley so aptly put it, is “to...
Reading the TLS in Calgary
My home town is often characterized as the redneck capital of Canada, especially by the bien pensants concentrated in Ontario and Quebec. And the few who escape this label must be progressives, eh? So it surprises many when they learn I am a conservative and I read...