Your admission into the Hernia Club (Inguinal Division) commences from the day you emerged from the shower and noticed a bulge just above the waist. Membership ends upon your death. There is no initiation fee, annual charge or minimum bar and restaurant tab required. No need to worry about global inclusion and diversity. The preponderanceContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Surgical Resort?”
Tag Archives: Robert K. Stephen
RKS 2025 Wine: Mencía a Pinot Noir on Steroids?
One of my favourite descriptors of a grape is attributable to Matt Kramer of the Wine Spectator many years back when he stated the Mencía grape reminded him of Pinot Noir on steroids. Whether that descriptor is correct is less relevant than the descriptor itself! You will find Mencía in Northwestern Spain and in theContinue reading “RKS 2025 Wine: Mencía a Pinot Noir on Steroids?”
RKS Literature: Sex and a Gas Mask (Andrea Levy)
“All that lily-of-the-valley scent. Hours spent waving my hair and powdering my face to porcelain perfection. Silk stockings, red lips and hands as soft as lah-di-lah. And I was married to a man who wouldn’t have noticed if I’d come to bed in my gas mask. If I could have asked Aunt Dorothy, “Is thatContinue reading “RKS Literature: Sex and a Gas Mask (Andrea Levy)”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgery is the Easy Part: No Worries as We’ve Seen it All Before!
Newbies to the Hernia Club are frequently barking up the wrong tree once they decide it is time for surgery and keenly focus on the surgery itself to the exclusion of the healing process. I will not review differing surgical approaches here as they are amply discussed on the internet. It is perfectly natural toContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgery is the Easy Part: No Worries as We’ve Seen it All Before!”
RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “Do I Know You from Somewhere?” A Juxtaposition of Two Possible Realities
“Do I Know You from Somewhere” juggles two possible realities. It is what could have been where choice, fate and accident intersect and zig zag with the past, present and future. There is a healthy dose of ominous fantasy a la “Twilight Zone”. Olive (Caroline Bell) meets Benny (Ian Otis Goff) at a relative’s wedding.Continue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “Do I Know You from Somewhere?” A Juxtaposition of Two Possible Realities”
RKS Literature: Frightened to Get in the Family Way! (Andrea Levy)
“All those warnings of things that could leave me in the family way. I’d been scared simple from the time my breasts first poked up in my jumper. Kissing at the garden gate, canoodling at the pictures. If he stuck his tongue in your mouth that was definitely a baby. If he touched your breast,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Frightened to Get in the Family Way! (Andrea Levy)”
RKS Literature: Butcher’s Daughter Stuck on the Farm in Rural England
“I should have been going to dances, larking with men who had Clark Gable hair and whispered in my ear I was as pretty as an English rose. My legs should have been caressed in silk stockings, a pointed toe and a delicate heel on my shoe as I stepped from a car. I shouldContinue reading “RKS Literature: Butcher’s Daughter Stuck on the Farm in Rural England”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgical Options and Preparing for Your Big Date
Be aware there are several surgical options; open, laparoscopic and robotic. The method chosen may be totally your choice or it may be dictated by the type and complexity of the hernia. Take the time to familiarize yourself with the differing methods. You may have the option to do nothing or wait. But circumstances mayContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgical Options and Preparing for Your Big Date”
RKS Literature: World War II Luck in England (Andrea Levy)
“Luck is a funny thing. To some only a large win of money at the pools is luck. Or finding a valuable jewel at your feet on a London street. That surely is luck. But during the war luck take another turn. The bomb that just miss you is luck. Only your leg blown offContinue reading “RKS Literature: World War II Luck in England (Andrea Levy)”
RKS Literature: Lynching Welcoming Party for Jamaican Soldiers in Virginian U.S. Army Base: A Warm American Welcome
“I soon realized we were lucky the American authorities did not let us off the camp in Virginia. We West Indians, thinking ourselves as good as any man, would have wandered unaware, greeting white people who would have swung us from the nearest tree for merely passing the time of day with them. And myContinue reading “RKS Literature: Lynching Welcoming Party for Jamaican Soldiers in Virginian U.S. Army Base: A Warm American Welcome”
A Bird's Eye View of Fashion, Food, Travel, Culture, Beverage and Curiosity 