The standard slogan, now gradually disappearing, on British Columbia license plates was “Beautiful British Columbia”. What is not disappearing on the shelves of state monopoly liquor distributor in the province of Ontario (LCBO) are the wines of British Columbia because there were so few of them anyways so not much to disappear. As American winesContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Stag’s Hollow 2022 Syrah from Beautiful British Columbia: An Affordable Canadian Côte-Rôtie????”
Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)
RKS Literature: These Undertakers Will Fix You Up Real Good (Evelyn Waugh)
“We had a loved one last month who was found drowned. He had been in the ocean a month and they only identified him by his wrist-watch. “they fixed that stiff,” said the hostess disconcertingly lapsing from the high diction she had hitherto employed, ‘so he looked like it was his wedding day. The boysContinue reading “RKS Literature: These Undertakers Will Fix You Up Real Good (Evelyn Waugh)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: (WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE I AM GOING TO?)
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE I AM GOING TO? I am not going to say master or mistress as such words suggest a West Highland Terrier is under the control of a human. Quite frankly it just may be the other way around! Just because Westies are featured in many advertisements as cute fluffballs must neverContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: (WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE I AM GOING TO?)”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version) GROUP TOUR PERSONALITIES: THE INTROVERT
GROUP TOUR PERSONALITIES: THE INTROVERT Yes, the quiet ones often demeaned as timid and aloof lacking social graces. Introverts are drawn to the inner world of thought and feeling and recharge their batteries by being alone. Introverts do not thirst interaction. And it could be that introverts are possibly extroverts but for a limited periodContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version) GROUP TOUR PERSONALITIES: THE INTROVERT”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”
FOREWARD My name is Rory Dylan Stephen. I am a West Highland Terrier. We are brave, loyal, curious, stubborn and knock you over cute. I am a late summer pup. If you query what is this smartass puppy doing writing his memoirs. For God’s sake he’s only a puppy! I am writing this masterpiece toContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom””
Press Release: New Serialized Novel to be Published: “Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom
5November2025: Toronto, Ontario A Little Birdie Told Me will be publishing on a serialized basis Robert K. Stephen’s “Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”. This represents a progression of canine centric novels previously published by Robert K. Stephen including “Memoirs of Dylan the Westie”, “Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog” and “Andrij the Orphaned UkrainianContinue reading “Press Release: New Serialized Novel to be Published: “Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)
Group Tour Personalities: The Extrovert Extroverts are easy to spot. Friendly. Willing to approach and chat you up. Not so much they are innately friendly, but they simply can’t help themselves. Not to be exalted over introverts. Just a different personality. Moderate extroverts are fine with me and thank goodness on this tour and theContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)
GROUP TOUR: PERSONALITIES IN THE MIX Some group tours are for specific groups, members some of which are known by each other but most are an assemblage of strangers. For example I went to Southeast Asia with university alumnae the majority on this trip from Canadian universities. I did not know any of the 16Continue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”
RKS 2025 Film: “Time Travel is Dangerous”: 99% Silly and Perhaps 1% Deserving Thought
Ruth (Ruth Syratt) and Megan (Megan Stevenson) are proprietors of a vintage shop “Cha Cha Cha” in the Muswell Hill suburb of London. Some of the older customers refer to it as a “charity shop” and given the rag tag merchandise they “source” from garbage bins that may be a more accurate description of theirContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Time Travel is Dangerous”: 99% Silly and Perhaps 1% Deserving Thought”
RKS Literature: The Brutality of the Hun and Trench Warfare (Pat Barker)
“The other expression was the trench expression. It looks quite daunting if you don’t know what it is. Any one of my platoon could have posed for a propaganda poster of the Brutal Hun, but it wasn’t brutality or anything like that It was sort of a morose disgust and it came from living inContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Brutality of the Hun and Trench Warfare (Pat Barker)”
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