The Glass Character
Thursday, January 28, 2016

A boy, Yasha: George Gershwin in translation

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This is a literal translation from a lovely site called Russian Culture.  It's one of the best "Life of Gershwin" pie...

Challenger: it was 30 years ago today

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Today is the 30th anniversary of the Challenger explosion that changed everything for NASA, perhaps forever. I won't tell you wha...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Pejoration: for women, things just get worse

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This is just a snippet from a much longer article in The Guardian about a linguisitic term I hadn't heard before: "pejoratio...

The Canadian Identity: is there anything left of it?

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(Actual Amazon reviews of Red Rose tea, which recently came out with a "new and improved" version. All of them gave it one st...

Let's Talk: today and every day

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Every day, and in every way, I am hearing a message. And it's not a bad message, in and of itself.  It's building, in fact, in ...

Such a douche

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IS "CALENDAR FEAR" UNDERMINING YOUR HEALTH? With maddening slowness time drags on! ....
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

I am

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The Twelve Steps: is there another way?

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THE TWELVE STEPS 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol… that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a P...
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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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