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Bob’s Recent Blog Posts
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Tag Archives: writing and publishing
Anne Carson – Ambiguity, Uncertainty, Ecstasy
In the fall of 2019, I became a student again. I attended my first class in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Simon Fraser University. http://www.sfu.ca/gls.html I wore my brand new Doc Martens shoes to class, partly because, as we … Continue reading
Older than Dirt
Rome is indescribable and almost incomprehensible; the layers of history are too deep and the bits that have survived are difficult to make order and sense of. Rome also isn’t well served by photographs. Pictures really can’t capture the grandeur … Continue reading
Food, Glorious Food.
Over the past six weeks in Italy, I have consumed at least my body weight in the following; tomatoes, cantaloupe, mozzarella cheese and prosciutto. My two main dishes have been prosciutto y melon and Caprese salad. They fed my body … Continue reading
Bottled Poetry
Florence is the place most people go when they visit Tuscany. It is a city like no other, with ornate cathedrals, museums crammed with Tuscan art and artifacts, piazzas that demand a stop for coffee and contemplation and enough shopping … Continue reading
Cinque Terre – terroir.
Cinque Terre is one of those special places in the world, a World Heritage site encompassing five villages (Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza, and Monterosso al Mare) that have existed for centuries. That they are strikingly beautiful is a blinding flash … Continue reading
Off the couch hits the interview couch on Shaw TV
I was interviewed on Shaw TV in Vancouver; it aired today. go to; http://www.youtube.com/therushonshawtv Fame and fortune are sure to follow…
The flotsam, jetsam and myth of history.
Troy is an exemplar, it encapsulates Turkey’s vast many faceted history; fact and fiction, myth and mystery. The mythical Troy of Homer’s Iliad, a story written in 800 BC of events that were supposed to have occurred in 1200 BC, … Continue reading
The Road to Ravenna – Part 1
The temperature in Vancouver last weekend hovered around zero, windchill on False Creek took it below zero. It snowed all weekend; abnormal weather for the lower mainland. No one expects sympathy from the rest of Canada, locked in their deep … Continue reading