The Glass Character
Friday, April 17, 2026

Will this lead me out of the valley of the shadow?

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This is one of those times when I want to write my way out of a maze that I can barely comprehend. Having scraped through a near-death exper...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Ryan is 20 years old (but doesn't look a day over 20 months!)

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Monday, April 13, 2026

Violin

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  Violin   Falling into amber, a buzzing blur of honey and blonde,   strings as veins, a coursing, rush of taut bliss, stretch...
Friday, April 3, 2026

Why the past isn't such a great place to live

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  How can I justify, or even describe, the things that won’t leave my head, even though I fervently wish they would? And people. Don’t let...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

My Gabor-rant: when Dr. Mate stole my stuff

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I found this letter (written in 2008) deep in the files, and I doubt that I ever sent it to Gabor, but I needed to write it  at the time, an...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Guru of Gloom and Doom: Amazon Reviews of Gabor Mate's The Myth of Normal

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My counselor suggested this book after hearing many reviews about it, and 1/3 of the way through or so, I had to put it down. It was very ha...
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Margaret Gunning
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Welcome to Margaret Gunning's blog: a tribute to the strangeness of the ordinary. Ms.Gunning is the author of The Glass Character (Thistledown Press), her paean/tribute to the brilliant silent screen comic Harold Lloyd. Researching and writing this novel celebrating Harold's legacy and legend was by far the most compelling (and fun!) experience in her long and varied writer's life. The novel is available on Amazon and Kindle, Thistledown Press, and other major book sites. Her previous novels, Better than Life (NeWestPress) and Mallory (Turnstone Press) explore her lifelong fascination with family secrets, alienation, and the surprising joys of the ordinary. She has also written hundreds of book reviews (Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Globe and Mail) and newspaper columns for small-town papers across the country. Her philosophy: "Everything that happens is happening for the first time."
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