Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)

RKS 2024 Wine: Deep Purple “Smoke on the Water”

Wildfires rage on in Chile today. The urban area most affected would seem to be Viña del Mar a coastal resort city on the Pacific northwest of Valparaiso. Over 100 people have perished and hundreds are missing. It is too early to determine damage to viticulture but one should remember while fire is a threatContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Deep Purple “Smoke on the Water””

RKS Literature: France in 1775 (Dickens)

“France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down the hill, making paper money and spending it. Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cutContinue reading “RKS Literature: France in 1775 (Dickens)”

RKS Literature: Every Human Being a Profound Secret (Dickens)

“A wonderful fact to reflect on, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret: that every room in every one of them encloses itsContinue reading “RKS Literature: Every Human Being a Profound Secret (Dickens)”

Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 28June1971: Panormitis, Symi, Greece: Staying with The Pilgrims in a Monastery: Father Gabriel’s Miracle

Dear Barbara: You and your roommates would go out of your head as Rhodes is bursting with sailors. I could have a million (at least). We met Harry and Shorty two sailors and on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Roosevelt we received a private tour and saw a side of the ship the regular visiting publicContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 28June1971: Panormitis, Symi, Greece: Staying with The Pilgrims in a Monastery: Father Gabriel’s Miracle”

RKS Literature: L.A. Gringo Blames the Mexicans

“It was the Mexicans who’d done this. Illegals. Goons with their hats turned backwards on their heads. Sneaking across the border, ruining the schools, gutting property values and freeloading on welfare, and if that wasn’t enough, now they were burning everybody else too. They were like the barbarians outside the gates of Rome, only theyContinue reading “RKS Literature: L.A. Gringo Blames the Mexicans”

“Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog” : The Final Cut: A Grisly Blast: Reggie is Kidnapped! John Travolta Asks Me for a Favour! Chapter Forty (40)

Tuckered out from our Stockholm flight our private jet touches down at Toronto’s Pearson Airport. Our pilot comes to say good-bye to us as we take the stairs off the airplane. You wouldn’t believe this but it was John Travolta. He has inside contacts at Disney and is lobbying to be my voice in anyContinue reading ““Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog” : The Final Cut: A Grisly Blast: Reggie is Kidnapped! John Travolta Asks Me for a Favour! Chapter Forty (40)”

Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 28June1971: Rhodos, Greece: The Town is Lousy with U.S. Sailors

Dear Andrew: We are sitting in an outdoor café waiting for some service for breakfast. It is 9:30 now and they do not open for dinner until 10. They serve orange juice in a can here. And always buns in the morning. They sure eat lots of bread here. Loads of it at every meal.Continue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 28June1971: Rhodos, Greece: The Town is Lousy with U.S. Sailors”

RKS 2024 Wine: A Shiraz from Australia’s Langhorne Creek: I am Not Waltzing With This Matilda

Thoughts on a Bleasdale 2019 Generations Shiraz. Aroma: Oak has worked itself nicely into the wine softening and plumping it up, hopefully not for the slaughter. Ripe plum, blackberry, cherry, spice and white pepper. Palate: No jammy Aussie bunko wine. In fact scratching my head with such an alluring aroma where did the fruit go.Continue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: A Shiraz from Australia’s Langhorne Creek: I am Not Waltzing With This Matilda”

“Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: : Reggie and Bob Receive Nobel Prize for Literature! Dillie Makes Scotland Proud! Why all These Calls From Nicole Kidman? Our Invite to Camp David: Chapter Thirty Nine (39)

Bob is on fire with his novel “Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog”. It is on the number one position for novels on the New York Times Best Seller list for 32 weeks in a row. Additionally he has signed a huge deal with Big House Publishers to convert his internet published novels “Life at Megacorp”,Continue reading ““Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: : Reggie and Bob Receive Nobel Prize for Literature! Dillie Makes Scotland Proud! Why all These Calls From Nicole Kidman? Our Invite to Camp David: Chapter Thirty Nine (39)”