A few weeks ago I wrote a post regarding the passing of Margo Carter, a long time Australian resident of Tiger Leaping Gorge in Yunnan Province, China. I received some email feedback and have been asked to post the following. I read with great interest the comments on running into Margo Carter, the Australian woman […]
I don’t know if it’s really worthy of blog post, yet I was recently told a very good method of handling bartenders who dish out the attitude. The all too typical situation was buying a beer at the bar. This assumes, of course, that guy didn’t already clandestinely take his well-deserved “tip” out of your […]
Either love or hate the ideologies behind big box book stores such as Chapters-Indigo, but one cannot deny that they have some fairly killer book deals when Ms. Reisman is looking to drop some of her older stock. Yeah, yeah, I know it’s not the public library or fake book shop prices, but hey, 50% […]