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Author Archives: Barry Pomeroy
Why People Believe in Gods: Coincidence and the Workings of Chance
When I was driving east with my friend this summer, we began to have car problems. Such problems, as you know if you have experienced them, nearly always occur late in the evening and on a Saturday evening. As if … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Religion, Superstition
Tagged breakdowns, car maintenance, logic and coincidence, prayer
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Skyscrapers: from No Lions Anymore
When he first heard the expression for tall city buildings, he imagined they actually scraped the sky. In his childhood imagination he saw the final bricks—for he was used to building with interlocking blocks—fastened to the top and the last … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged social censure, trauma, twin towers
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Even the Stars are a Mess
They were years of frustration, endless eons of disappointment spliced with rare bursts of pleasure, like the sudden explosion of a present for his birthday, or the sight of horses hanging their long heads over a fence, all in a … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Writing
Tagged imagination, walter mitty
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Halfway Across the Country
I have driven across Canada over fifty times, although that measurement is contested by my friend. Everyone gets cranky when they are overtired or have had a bad day, or just when someone is annoying, but when some of my … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Superstition
Tagged alternative facts, arguing, google is your friend, intellectual honesty, measurement, physics
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Retirement
The first time I encountered the notion of retirement and pensions was nearly twenty years ago when I was working at Worcester State College. I had just been hired, and although they only intended to give me full time hours … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Gardening, Health, Self-reliance
Tagged pension plans, Retirement
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Nutrient on the History Channel Show Alone
A central preoccupation of the show Alone is, naturally enough, how to get enough food to stay alive. The show has featured survivors who have made deadfall traps to catch mice, eaten slugs, and relied on seaweed to keep themselves … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Health, Media, Self-reliance, Solitude
Tagged Alone from the history channel, calories, food, history channel, nutrient, protein
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My Writing in my Writing
Although I never made note of it before, I noticed when I was editing my latest book—The View from Vancouver—that I had slipped in references to my other books. At first I made little of it, and presumed I was … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Literature, Writing
Tagged Hope BC, The View from Vancouver, Working for Ray
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My Brother’s Dinner with Andre
I have a special relationship with Louis Malle’s 1981 Hollywood cum arthouse film My Dinner with Andre. Although normally such a declaration would be followed by a revelation about how I was related to one of the actors, perhaps Wallace … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Health, Travel
Tagged film, Louis Malle, My Dinner with Andre, The Family, travel
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Thai Red Curry Pumpkin
I never cook with a recipe, although I occasionally record what ingredients I have combined to make a dish. More often, I have no idea what it will taste like until it’s done, and by then I have moved on … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Health, recipes, Self-reliance
Tagged Pumpkin curry, recipe, Thai red curry
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Nepotism and the Publishing Industry
The writing community industry is small enough in Canada that even someone like me, who is tangentially related to the literary world, can often see names I recognize in literary magazines. I also check which books are published by which … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature, Writing
Tagged canlit, nepotism, patronage, publishing, small presses
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