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MEETING AUTHOR STAN CHUNG
MEETING AUTHOR STAN CHUNG As an accidental reader of STAN CHUNG’s column in the local paper (a copy of the Kelowna Daily Courier was put into my mail slot during a sales campaign), I immediately became intrigued. The particular essay … Continue reading
OCCUPATION: MEMORIES OF 1968
OCCUPATION: MEMORIES OF 1968 In 1968 I finally had left home after a delay of several years, and I settled in Amsterdam, the fairest city in the land. I would have preferred to have left home at 16, as I … Continue reading
Memoir or fake?
http://therumpus.net/2011/04/the-heroic-lie-a-brief-inquiry-into-the-fake-memoir/ This post is devoted to memoir writing and what is fake and is truth from the above article by Steve Almond in The Rumpus room, a website for writers and readers. Thank you Steve Almond for this enlightening and … Continue reading
Thoughts about The Help and Book Of Negroes
The Help and The Book Of Negroes Maybe it’s unfair to mention the two books in one breath, but I can’t seem to escape that need. The book The Help written by the American author Kathryn Stockett recently became a … Continue reading
MULTI – USE TRAFFIC CORRIDOR
THE MULTI – USE TRAFFIC CORRIDOR. In our city of Kelowna BC we have several so-called multi-use traffic corridors, streets where several areas are designated for specific users, separated by a berm of plantings or a line painted on the … Continue reading
Dating after fifty
Dating after fifty The day will come for 50% of us, if it hasn’t happened already for you, that you find yourself without a partner at an age that everything on your body has started to sag, wrinkle or turn … Continue reading
Sixty – a short story
This is a story of my soon-to-be-published collection of short stories. I would really like to know what you think, whether it’s drivel or you think I should continue with publishing this. I am thinking of leaving this particular story … Continue reading
Okanagan Short Story competition
Last Thursday, at the Okanagan Short Story event, I met the author of The Golden Mean, Annabel Lyon, winner of the Rogers Trust fiction award and finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She remembered my story from the twenty entries she … Continue reading