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More Robert Service - The Call of the Wild

jsundberg wrote 4 weeks ago: Back in March I posted a poem by Robert Service called “The Men That Don’t Fit In, … more →

Tags: books and reading, Life in general

another diamond day

Sherry wrote 2 months ago: Dawson City again. hehe.  In fact, i’m really quite pleased to be back here… it’s … more →

Tags: Dawson City

In the Mexican suitcase

antigerman wrote 2 months ago: Robert Capa’s “Mexican” Suitcase.  photo © Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Gerda Taro, Air Raid … more →

Tags: Anti-Fascism, Graphic Arts, Iberian culture, Music, Spanish Civil War, Stalinism, Trotskyists, barcelona, Bertolt Brecht

Finally!1 comment

sklyansky wrote 2 months ago: For years now a lot of us (well maybe not a lot, but I’m sure there’s at least one or tw … more →

Tags: Leon Trotsky, Trotsky, Vladimir Lenin, Lenin, V.I Lenin, New Books, New Biographies, Biography, Sovietology

Destination: Back and Beyond4 comments

Gary Spear wrote 4 months ago:  ”The brush beyond the big hump has been calling me for a long time and maybe I better answer … more →

Tags: Books, Movies, New Thoughts, Alaska, Alone in the Wilderness, Bible, Carpentry, Christianity, church

The Sheepeaters1 comment

Leslie wrote 4 months ago: One of the interns gave me a book of Robert Service poems.  Oh, how I like so many of them.  Here … more →

Tags: New Ideas, Indigenous cultures, Native Americans, bighorn sheep, Sheepeaters, Yellowstone National Park, native american culture

The Men That Don't Fit In - Robert Service

jsundberg wrote 4 months ago: If you’ve never read any poetry by Robert Service, you should.  To assist you in this endeavor … more →

Tags: books and reading

The Jarrow Crusade Harmonica Band6 comments

bigrab wrote 5 months ago: When I was looking around for photos of industrial action this morning for my previous post I came a … more →

Tags: Harmonica, Jarrow Crusade, 1930's depression, song of the mouth organ

The Correction of Josef Stalin

sesquiotic wrote 7 months ago: A blast from a few years ago, worth posting now that I remember it… A colleague noted the foll … more →

Tags: Fun, Editing, Stalin

Remembering Pierre Berton

Ray Argyle wrote 8 months ago: I’m at the Bright Pearl Restaurant on Spadina Avenue in Toronto, helping celebrate the memory … more →

Tags: Books, Pierre Berton, Berton Writers Retreat, National History Society, Elsa Franklin, A.B. McKillop, Dan McGrew

My Dentist3 comments

bigrab wrote 8 months ago: After an excruciating extraction a couple of weeks ago, it’s back to the dentist this morning … more →

Tags: Diary, Poetry, my dentist

Call of the Wild

Dawn wrote 10 months ago: The Call of the Wild They have cradled you in custom, they have primed you with their preaching, Th … more →

Tags: Inspiration, spirituality, Poetry, Art, Jerico Santander, The Call of the Wild

Moderation - Robert Service

bigrab wrote 11 months ago: Moderation When pious people label vice I reckon mainly pleasure; I dream that w … more →

Tags: Poetry

Random News

Suzanne Francis wrote 11 months ago: Spent all day yesterday rebuilding my system after DH replaced my hard drive with something bigger a … more →

Tags: About Writing, Song of the Arkafina, hard drive, Billy Squier, Yukon, Beyond the Gyre

Book and Briar

Doug Geivett wrote 1 year ago: The second stanza of the five-stanza poem, “I Have a Few Friends,” by Canadian Poet Robe … more →

Tags: Quotations, Pleasures of the Briar, Pipes, Friendship, Poetry

Robert Service- The Shooting of Dan McGrew

bigrab wrote 1 year ago: Here is the first verse of the original poem which provided the inspiration for Matt McGinn’s … more →

Tags: matt mcginn

Inspiration1 comment

hwood295 wrote 1 year ago: Inspiration Robert Service   How often have I started out With no thought in my noodle, And wandered … more →

Tags: Analysis, Reflection, Poetry, College, Life, Branching Out, High School

Weekly Geeks #3 - Childhood Memories10 comments

thatsthebook wrote 1 year ago: Well, I made it back to Canada. I had a good flight the only issue I had was the horribly long wait … more →

Tags: Weekly Geeks, shel silverstein, the cremation of Sam McGee, The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, Alligator Pie, The Lord of the Rings, The Innkeeper's Daughter, Jill Briscoe

The Canadian Book Challenge - Yukon Territory2 comments

thatsthebook wrote 1 year ago: For my seventh book in The Canadian Book Challenge I remained in the north. When I saw this book … more →

Tags: Review, The Canadian Book Challenge, Margaret Atwood, Al Purdy, the cremation of Sam McGee, Best Tales of the Yukon


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