The Glass Character
Sunday, September 18, 2011

A horse is a horse is a horse

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Last week I had a wonderful riding experience on Vancouver Island at Tiger Lily Farms. I got to ride Bentley, a lovely roan Quarter horse w...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Help: they just can't help it, can they?

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My mother had a black cleaning lady named Eva for years and years. She didn't have much to do with us kids, though we regularly saw he...
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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Bitter fruit: why I left the United Church

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Those last two spirituals, stumbled upon while trying to find something else, so pierced the core of me that I wondered if I could write...

Deep River Mahalia Jackson

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Witness - University of Utah Singers

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Vat's dis? Vat a mess, oy, get my zecretary!

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In all fairness, there were a couple of photos I still liked from The Family of Man , that huge Museum of Modern Art exhibit from the ...
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Friday, September 9, 2011

The Family of. . . what??

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I recently rediscovered this battered old book in my collection and was looking forward to seeing the photos again for the first time in 25...
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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Tenderly her blue eyes glistened. . .

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Until a few minutes ago, I would not listen to anyone's interpretation of this melancholy little gem except William Warfield's. I ...

Hounded

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And a dog stood over him. He was that sort of person. Hounded. So when the 19th-century English poet Francis Thompson wrote his most famou...
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Everything I touch turns to. . .

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Yes. Every once in a while, everything turns brown. I sort-of figured out why I can't attach links or embed videos. I have it more-or-...
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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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