Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)

RKS 2026 British Columbia Wine: British Columbian Cabernet Sauvignon Not to Be Overlooked

Due to the blustering and threat mongering of President Donald Trump of the disUnited States some Canadian provinces have prohibited the sale of American wine and spirits. This has been a severe blow to Californian wineries but has created an opportunity for Canadian wineries to benefit from this prohibition and show their stuff. But canContinue reading “RKS 2026 British Columbia Wine: British Columbian Cabernet Sauvignon Not to Be Overlooked”

RKS Literature: Friendship and Marriage (Friedrich Nietzsche)

“Friendship and Marriage. The best friend will probably get the best wife, because a good marriage is based on talent for friendship.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Human, All Too Human”, 1878.

RKS Literature: Marriage as a Long Conversation (Friedrich Nietzsche)

“Marriage as a Long Conversation. When entering a marriage one should ask the question: do you think you will be able to have good conversations with this woman right into old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time in interaction is spent in conversation.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Human, All Too Human”,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Marriage as a Long Conversation (Friedrich Nietzsche)”

RKS Literature: Desire to Avenge and Vengeance (Friedrich Nietzsche)

“Desire to avenge and vengeance. To have thoughts of revenge and execute them means to be struck with a violent-but temporary fever. But to have thoughts of revenge without the strength or courage to execute them means to endure a chronic suffering, a poisoning of body and soul.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Human, All Too Human”, 1878.

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):21October 2025: Siem Reap: At the Supermarket, Plantation and a Farewell Dinner

21October 2025: Siem Reap: At the Supermarket, Plantation and a Farewell Dinner Last full day of the tour anticipating a brutal day of travelling for the return to Toronto tomorrow. Had a leisurely buffet breakfast and several cups of tea. I will say the eggs I had for breakfast (and the one over my beefContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):21October 2025: Siem Reap: At the Supermarket, Plantation and a Farewell Dinner”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):20October2025: Siem Reap, Cambodia: Angkor Wat: Saving the Best For Last?

20October2025 Siem Reap, Cambodia: Angkor Wat: Saving the Best For Last? I have visited Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and now Cambodia. I have witnessed and experienced an incredible amount and the question that faces me is Angkor Wat the actual highlight of this tour? Impossible to answer although it was the destination of overwhelming attraction andContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):20October2025: Siem Reap, Cambodia: Angkor Wat: Saving the Best For Last?”

RKS Literature: Goodwill (Friedrich Nietzsche)

“Among the small but endlessly abundant and therefore very effective things that science ought to heed more than the great, rare things, is goodwill. I mean those expressions of a friendly disposition, in interactions, that smile of the eye, those handclasps, that ease which usually envelops nearly all human actions. Every teacher, every official bringsContinue reading “RKS Literature: Goodwill (Friedrich Nietzsche)”

RKS Literature: The Hierarchy of Good (Friedrich Nietzsche)

“The hierarchy of good, however, is not fixed and identical at all times. If someone prefers revenge to justice, he is moral by the standard of an earlier culture, yet by the standard of the present culture he is immoral. ‘Immoral’ then indicates that someone has not felt, or not felt strongly enough, the higher,Continue reading “RKS Literature: The Hierarchy of Good (Friedrich Nietzsche)”

RKS Literature: Leaving Dead Bodies in the Woods as a Matter of Course (James Fenimore Cooper)

“The whole party moved swiftly through the narrow path, toward the north, leaving the healing waters to mingle unheeded with the adjacent brooks and the bodies of the dead to fester on the neighbouring mount, without the rites of sepulture; a fate but too common to the warriors of the woods to excite either commiserationContinue reading “RKS Literature: Leaving Dead Bodies in the Woods as a Matter of Course (James Fenimore Cooper)”