Dear Barbara: Again I did not get on an Overseas National Airways flight for the second day in a row. Want to come home and I could have almost cried. I checked into a hotel near the train station in Frankfurt called The Continental to stay the night. There is a chance I can getContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 3March1970: Frankfurt, Germany”
Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)
RKS Literature: Renewed Life with The First High-Ball of the Day (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“Only for a brief moment every day in the warmth and renewed life of a first high-ball did his mind turn to those opalescent dreams of future pleasure-the mutual heritage of the happy and the damned. But this was only for a little while. As he grew drunker the dreams faded and he became aContinue reading “RKS Literature: Renewed Life with The First High-Ball of the Day (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut: Reggie and Dillie Try to Calm Down Karim: Chapter Fourteen
Those of you reading this are human. Do you really comprehend what it is like living the life of a cast-off dog on the streets of Cairo? No you don’t as you are not a dog. You would have to had led the life Karim and I lived in Cairo to understand what I thinkContinue reading “Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut: Reggie and Dillie Try to Calm Down Karim: Chapter Fourteen”
RKS 2024 Film: “Come Lie with Me” (Arrête avec tes mesonges): The Torture of Remaining in the Closet
I take issue with the translation of “Arrête avec tes mesonges” which in my French means “stop with your lies” far more appropriate than “Come Lie with Me” given the path and plot of the film. You see Stéphane Belcourt (Guillame de Tonquédec) is a gay novelist who is quite out of the closet. OnContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Come Lie with Me” (Arrête avec tes mesonges): The Torture of Remaining in the Closet”
RKS 2024 Wine: So What if 2020 Was a Good Red Bordeaux Vintage?
The pundits say 2020 was a good vintage year for red Bordeaux wines. This does not mean you fall hook line and sinker for every 2020 that comes your way. Who is behind the juice is perhaps most important. Not all wineries are created equal. One should ask when the grapes were picked. What wereContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: So What if 2020 Was a Good Red Bordeaux Vintage?”
Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: ?February1970: Amsterdam, Holland: They Will Tear You Apart in the Red-Light District
Dear Barb: Well its caught up with me all this cold and damp weather as I awoke with a sore throat, a cough with a headache. For a change it is a beautiful sunny day. I went downstairs and had three cups of coffee and returned to the room. I have tickets to the symphonyContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: ?February1970: Amsterdam, Holland: They Will Tear You Apart in the Red-Light District”
Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut: Karim is Coming to Town! : Chapter 13
I heard some exciting news that Karim is coming to Toronto. Karim is an Egyptian name that means “Noble and Generous”. Not only is Karim coming to Toronto from Cairo but Bob and Fay have put in an application to adopt him. Karim is a street dog and we were friends on the streets. KarimContinue reading “Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut: Karim is Coming to Town! : Chapter 13”
Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother:? February1970: Amsterdam, Holland: Smelly Trouble Causing Hippies in Long Fur Coats
Dear Boys: I am taking a rest before supper. I don’t know when I will have it but it will be later. I have a lousy cold wouldn’t you know it. I ate lunch at 3:30 so dinner will be light. This morning after the breakfast of cold ham, salami, cheese, butter and coffee IContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother:? February1970: Amsterdam, Holland: Smelly Trouble Causing Hippies in Long Fur Coats”
Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut: Some Fine Tuning for a Street Dog: Chapter Twelve
I was fully trained at least by Egyptian standards when I was living with my first master Anwar. What do Fay and Bob expect of me knowing I may be a bit rough around the edges because of the tough time I spent on the streets of Cairo? Can I deliver and be the perfectContinue reading “Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut: Some Fine Tuning for a Street Dog: Chapter Twelve”
RKS 2024 Film: “Be Still”: A Descent into Madness of a Forgotten Canadian
You know Salvador Dali and Mary Cassatt. But do you know Canadians Helen Galloway McNicoll and Hannah Maynard? All but erased from history, 40 years before Dali and the Surrealist movement began, professional Canadian photographer Hannah Maynard was perfecting surrealistic techniques in her Victoria, British Columbia studio. Maynard moved beyond stone faced portraits to aContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Be Still”: A Descent into Madness of a Forgotten Canadian”
