MATTERS ARE NOT WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE: OUR SECURITY TEAM AND BOB’S GLOCK Bob is fond of saying we inhabit a “modest cottage” on a quiet street in Toronto’s Bridlepath area. Bob and Fay purchased the late musician Gordon Lightfoot’s home and gently renovated it a few years ago. That musician Drake is ourContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: MATTERS ARE NOT WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE: OUR SECURITY TEAM AND BOB’S GLOCK”
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RKS LITERATURE: Frankenstein Verging on a Mental Breakdown (Mary Shelley)
“The leaves that year had withered before my work drew near to a close, and now every day showed me more plainly how well I had succeeded. But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other unwholesome trade thanContinue reading “RKS LITERATURE: Frankenstein Verging on a Mental Breakdown (Mary Shelley)”
RKS Literature: What Drives Frankenstein to Create His Monster? (Mary Shelley)
“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards like a hurricane in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me in ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creatorContinue reading “RKS Literature: What Drives Frankenstein to Create His Monster? (Mary Shelley)”
RKS Literature: The Miserable Details of Commerce (Mary Shelley)
“The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavored to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition in hisContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Miserable Details of Commerce (Mary Shelley)”
RKS Literature: Parents as Creators Not Tyrants (Mary Shelley)
“No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence. We felt that they were not the tyrants to rule our lot according to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed. When I mingledContinue reading “RKS Literature: Parents as Creators Not Tyrants (Mary Shelley)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE HOLY GRAIL CALLS BUT I KNOW NOT WHY
THE HOLY GRAIL CALLS BUT I KNOW NOT WHY Today it is my third walk around the block. I met Remy for the first time who is three times my size but so very calm. She let me sniff her. Jump on her side. All this was exciting. I am seeing the outside world andContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE HOLY GRAIL CALLS BUT I KNOW NOT WHY”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY’S REFLECTIONS ON 2025 AND RESOLUTIONS FOR 2026
RORY’S REFLECTIONS ON 2025 AND RESOLUTIONS FOR 2026 Can anything be more momentous than the year of your birth? Could anything be more disastrous than being placed with an unloving and mean family? This is not the case for me thank the stars above. I have a loving family. My bowl is full of tastyContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY’S REFLECTIONS ON 2025 AND RESOLUTIONS FOR 2026”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY REFLECTS ON 2025
RORY REFLECTS ON 2025 I will be 4 months old tomorrow. I am blessed. I have Bob, Fay and their son AJ to take care of me. Likewise, I take care of them….in a way. I have a bowl full of kibby (as Bob calls kibble), a bowl full of fresh clean water, bits ofContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY REFLECTS ON 2025”
RKS Literature: Leisure, Security and the Stupefaction of Poverty (George Orwell)
“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves, and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they wouldContinue reading “RKS Literature: Leisure, Security and the Stupefaction of Poverty (George Orwell)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: ON THE EIGHTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS HAS RORY BECOME A SMASH AND GRAB ARTIST? IS RORY HEADING TO PUPPY REFORM SCHOOL?
ON THE EIGHTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS HAS RORY BECOME A SMASH AND GRAB ARTIST? IS RORY HEADING TO PUPPY REFORM SCHOOL? On the eighth day of Christmas our dishwasher failed to drain despite valiant and creative attempts to make it by Bob. Matthew the repairman arrived on the eighth day of Christmas and while bendingContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: ON THE EIGHTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS HAS RORY BECOME A SMASH AND GRAB ARTIST? IS RORY HEADING TO PUPPY REFORM SCHOOL?”
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