Well, the calendar tells me it's World Mental Health day.  Again.  As   a card-carrying bipolar, can I say something here? One day, quit...

This is a brief clip of my beloved violin teacher Bohdan Siedlecki performing at an event in Port Coquitlam. Below is a comment I left  on B...

  I’ve been reluctant to write in any detail about the medical “issues” I have endured over the past 8 months or so (actually, it goes back ...

As usual, I was looking for something else.  I like to go on Amazon  and order books by the pound (a nice thickie for bedtime reading – unli...

  And let’s not get started on YouTube. I nearly had my channel terminated because they said I was selling drugs. I found an unusual wil...

  So my Lautrec Trek continues. Sometimes I think I'm over it (my God, this is like a bad breakup!), and at other times I think it has j...

  All through the sometimes harrowing biography of Lautrec by Julia Frey, there are indescribably cruel and even monstrous descriptions of h...

  I just don't want to let go of my little friend, just yet. Maybe it's just a distraction from the myriad ongoing health "issu...

  So while digging around in Lautrec Land, I found this, a rather sad diagram (in Spanish) listing all the disabilities Lautrec had. It'...