ANN’S MUSINGS – Survival of the kindest
Much as I wish it were otherwise, our human world often appears to operate according to the laws of the […]
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TORONTO PURSUITS – Sound Advice from Rick Phillips
I hope you can join me for Toronto Pursuits 2012 in July for The Concerto: Studies in Contrast. We’ll be
ON THE ROAD WITH ANN – Tiptoe through the tulips with me
Not one of Flora’s brilliant race A form more perfect can display; Art could not feign more simple grace Nor
ON THE ROAD WITH ANN – Take your soul for a stroll this October.
Los amigos buenos días, I was sorry to learn that one of our twelve travellers to walk the last hundred
TODAY IN LITERATURE – Vanishing Worlds
“It’s in the nature of things that whole worlds disappear,” writes the poet Robert Hass in the foreword to Jimmye
ON THE ROAD WITH ANN – Who said, “A picture is worth a thousand words”?
I don’t know about you, but I was surprised to find that that commonplace expression originates with Napoleon Bonaparte. It refers to
TRAVEL PURSUITS – A gentleman on the Mekong River
A chance encounter (at a local meeting of Camino aficianados) resulted in an extended conversation about the ways and means
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TRAVEL PURSUITS – Why a new book for Vietnam?
Here was the headline in the book review section of the Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper that caused me
ON THE ROAD WITH ANN – India — Arti ceremony is intimate in Narlai and spectacular in Varanasi
India’s holiest City Varanasi holds this Ganga Arti ceremony every evening at sunset. Pilgrims gather on the banks of the
ON THE ROAD WITH ANN – Dung or Marble?
There is no way postcard snaps or even a glossy National Geographic special can prepare you for the simultaneous majesty
