Driving Lessons
The little thing is long and skinny. Its blue in the harsh morning light
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My Doomed Voyage
The lecture ended with a sloppy rendition of the Stan Rogers song about Franklin
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Its a Smallwood, After All
One of the advantages of being immortal is that you eventually make—and make up for—every possible mistake
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A Family Affair
For columnist Andrew Coyne, a telltale line in last spring’s budget was the promise to improve the tax treatment of capital gains for fishers; for Jeffrey Simpson it was the …
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My Life with Tolstoy
Like the acting of Christopher Walken or the movies of Eric Rohmer, Tolstoy’s magnum opus is a magnet for foolish opinions
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Swimming with Mao
Survival and family
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A Song for the Yak
I feel pain a yak says when I stick a backgammon set in my eye or Celine Dion I should clarify the yak says grammar is a rich ape that …
Read More from A Little Useless Geometry & Other Matters
WATER Hopelessly conformist to any vessel, wavers beneath the smallest breath, takes on the colours of childhood. If you try to reason it throws back your image and withdraws to …
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