The Glass Character
Friday, September 25, 2026

MORNINGSIDE: Memories, second thoughts, and why we shouldn’t have heroes

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  So what happens when your hero turns out to have feet of clay? Well – is there any   other kind? Isn’t this realization a kind of punishme...
Saturday, August 29, 2026

BOUDOIR DOLLS: A Fad of the 1920s

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I barely remember posting this, and I have no idea where I found the images! But they're gorgeous,and I note that many of them are posin...

A-meow-deus! Brilliant parody of Amadeus WITH CATS!

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At last, a useful application for AI! This guy is a genius and stars his own cats in his animations. They keep getting better and better (an...
Monday, August 24, 2026

💥Prince Harry: DANCE PARTY!💥

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What can I say? I guess I don't need to say anything. Harry is an idiot, he can't dance, he doesn't even know where he is or who...
Friday, August 21, 2026

Baby's First Birthday (OK, it's me!)

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  BABY’S FIRST BIRTHDAY: She has a Whole Cake to Herself! OK, I’ll admit it – this is me at age one. For some reason my family allowed me ...
Thursday, August 13, 2026

The sun comes up. . .

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  OK  then, this is probably the last thing I should be doing, but it's a great song, illustrates how immobilizing an obsession can be, ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Only love can do that. Or can it?

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  Only love can do that. Only love.   But love costs. Does it not, and is that not why I still find myself struggling? Struggling in a b...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

Long Black Veil: Why can't I get past this horror?

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Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, though almost nobody knows about it or pays much attention. For the most part, the best sufferers of ...
Sunday, June 14, 2026

Swarmed by Goslings! My day at Como Lake

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  This has never happened before! I stood in the middle of a colony of Canada geese, and the goslings, thinking I was going to feed them, st...
Sunday, June 7, 2026

Why I can't say the "w-word"

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  My daughter cliff-dives in Greece, and my granddaughter hang-glides in Brazil. . . so, you may ask, what sort of risks have I taken? Are y...
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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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