“I hungered to make those children regard me with as high an opinion as I had for the principal and tutors at my college. Those white women whose superiority encircled them like an aureole, could quieten any raucous gathering by just placing a finger to a lip. Their formal elocution, their eminent intelligence, their imperialContinue reading “RKS Literature: The “Superiority” of White Women in 1948 Jamaica (Andrea Levy)”
Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Jelly and the Ultrasound Roll
Your physician has diagnosed a hernia of sorts and there are several types and if its an inguinal hernia the next step in the journey will usually be an inguinal ultrasound. Move those underpants down, let the gel flow and the wand does its magic. No preparation No pain. No fuss. No loss of dignity.Continue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Jelly and the Ultrasound Roll”
RKS 2025 Film: “Super Happy Forever”: Perhaps Instead “Eternally Miserable”
In “Super Happy Forever”, a Japanese feature film, director Kohei Igarashi plays with your mind right off the bat with the film’s name. A cultish misnomer. A fantasy. The film is more a dive into unhappiness derived from wishful thinking. And temporally Igarashi plays with you but not me as I have the film downContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Super Happy Forever”: Perhaps Instead “Eternally Miserable””
RKS Literature: The American Evangelist Mr. Ryder Spreads More Than Just the Good Word in Jamaica
“So it was no one’s surprise that gossip about the Ryders followed close behind: in shops, under the shade of trees, on street corners, at the food tables, the busybodies discussed when they saw Mr Ryder where Mr Ryder should not have been. When a pretty woman produced a fair skin baby with a completelyContinue reading “RKS Literature: The American Evangelist Mr. Ryder Spreads More Than Just the Good Word in Jamaica”
RKS Literature: The Twitching and Frothing Evangelists (Andrea Levy)
“The Ryders were evangelists and Mr Phillip had no time for evangelists. He did not like the way that people moved by the spirit of the Lord threw themselves to the ground shaking and frothing at the mouth like beasts. He could not understand that, as the service came to a close, those same peopleContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Twitching and Frothing Evangelists (Andrea Levy)”
RKS Literature: “Little Miss High-class from Jamaica Arrives in 1948 London” (Andrea Levy)
“Man, this woman is a barb under my skin-she irritate me so I lose my temper. I tell her. “Yes, and you know what else, little Miss Stick-up-your-nose-air, you will have to wash your plate, your vegetable and your backside in that basin too. This room is where you will sleep, eat, cook, dress andContinue reading “RKS Literature: “Little Miss High-class from Jamaica Arrives in 1948 London” (Andrea Levy)”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: A Victim of Sexism and The Squat They Never Taught You in Gym Class
Off to Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, specifically to the Family Practice Clinic which I have been a patient of for a decade or so. It is part of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine and its physicians are instructors at that Faculty of Medicine. Sunnybrook is a teaching hospital for residents wishing to practiceContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: A Victim of Sexism and The Squat They Never Taught You in Gym Class”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure
THE JOURNEY BEGINS The Great Hernia Adventure begins prior to your realization of it a common feature of maladies, afflictions and plagues. You only know when you are stricken. Out of the shower in May 2023. Towelling off. You don’t always look “down there” but even when you do are you are paying any degreeContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “The Salmon’s Call”
Joy Haskell’s feature documentary “The Salmon’s Call” might well have been titled “Last Call for Pacific Salmon” due to the decline of wild Pacific salmon in the riverways of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Haskell’s closing words of the documentary are, “Salmon don’t have a voice. We are their voice.” Indigenous people of BritishContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “The Salmon’s Call””
RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: A Red Assemblage from Ferox Estate Winery in Niagara, Ontario
A blend of Zweigelt (53%), Merlot (18%), Syrah (15%), Malbec (8%) and Cabernet Franc (6%) from 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Each component was aged in neutral French oak barriques (225L) for a minimum of 2 years before élevage, assemblage, filtration and bottling. Aroma: Black cherry, blackberry, blueberry and cassis all rather dense and heady.Continue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: A Red Assemblage from Ferox Estate Winery in Niagara, Ontario”
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