Guest Blogger

I am a guest blogger. My authorship and perspective changes.

By Guest Blogger 31st Jan 202131st Jan 2021

Buffalo

By John Urban

Buffalo was the name he gave, preferring to keep his real name to himself. He was a deserter from the US’s war on Vietnam, and he had made his way to Montreal.

By Guest Blogger 10th Jan 202110th Jan 2021

This delightful piece is presented with gratitude to guest blogger Teresa Bandrowska. As another Solstice passes, another new year begins, and I roll into yet another turn around the sun, … Continue reading Intimations of Mortality

By Guest Blogger 2nd Jan 20212nd Jan 2021

The Peanut Brittle Christmas Tree

Part one By Jay Thomson and Part two – Dylan’s Story by Christine Ferris Although her friends kept asking her what she most liked about Christmas, six-year-old Emma had so … Continue reading The Peanut Brittle Christmas Tree

By Guest Blogger 1st Jan 202130th Dec 2020

CHRISTMAS REMEMBERED

Christmas on the prairies in the 1930s. We had so little. We had so much.

By Guest Blogger 31st Dec 202030th Dec 2020

New Orleans and the Réveillon Dinner

Two o’clock in the morning may be an odd time to start a feast consisting of chicken and oyster gumbo, game pies, soups, souffles, lavish desserts, brandy and coffee, but this is how it is done.

By Guest Blogger 30th Dec 202028th Dec 2020

Aliens, Stars, and Fences – (A Christmas Tradition)

Arriving at the top, we could see a view of the whole city of Edinburgh below us, and we would stop walking and lie on the grass and look up at the stars.

By Guest Blogger 29th Dec 202029th Dec 2020

A Christmas Memory – Valdivia, Chile 1964

By Lucia Preller
Suddenly, one of the upstairs windows opened up and Agustin told my little brother that they were all in bed. His father had lost his job, so there was no Christmas for them that year..