Gifted Typist

Finally got around to working out a Flickr solution for my pictures. The little arrangement on left is clickable so feel free.
Only a few shots are uploaded thus far but gradually everything will be Flickr-ed. Having busted my bandwidth limit with too many big pictures in April, I now possess a more subtle understanding of [...]

Ernest Hemingway
1899-1961
Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois
Typewriter: Corona No. 3 & No.4*, Underwood Noiseless Portable*, various Royal portables*, Halda portable (recently sold in an online auction)

Hemingway started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. Before the United States entered the First World War, he joined [...]

Cold, glum, drizzle. Single-digit temperatures.
Sweaters, layers, heat turned on, numb fingers on keyboard.
Periods of drizzle. Periods of showers. Black clouds on the Environment Canada website.
Lackluster flowers craving sunshine. Even the fake flowers look lackluster.
Damp barbecue stuck under plastic cover. Who wants to barbecue in the drizzle?
Grey sky, grey roads, grey faces trudging [...]

If you like our way of life in Canada, you might want to pay attention to the “chilling” report by the Conference Board of Canada which gives this country low grades on things like innovation, R&D and sustainable development.
The report card paints a portrait of a mediocre performance that will not be good enough to [...]