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Welcome to the blog
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 month in Collingwood
The act We talked about it. We thought about it. And then we did it. We spent a month in Collingwood to experience living close to a child and grandchildren, something we had not enjoyed since the boys left home for university, many long years ago. One went to Texas...
What I love about Calgary*
“The world is too much with us; late and soon Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers—” Ah, yes, William Wordsworth captures our immersion in daily trials & tribulations, to exclude the wonder of the world around us. Thanksgiving, then, seems the perfect time to...
The soft bigotry of hard leftism
You see this over and over again in the Western modern world: The very people who rant on & on that the results of all endeavours—not the opportunity, but the results—must be equal for everyone, are the same little tyrants who insist women and blacks and browns need...
Cometh the hour, cometh the man*
What a man and a book to match—Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts, 982 pages of reading pleasure about this giant of the 20th century! I always knew Winston Churchill was admirable, indomitable, optimistic, but I did not know the obstacles in his way...