gloria fern's Musings in a Pandemic and Beyond is a collection of poems that bring to light the collective celebrations and sorrows of the Covid19 experience. These thoughtful reflections rejoice with gratitude and weep with despair. In the poem Unite fern asks us during this sorrowful time to allow "The sun to break through in you". We are reminded to cherish the simple things: sourdough bread, currants and laughter. She has hig...

"Sitting at my desk in Collingwood, watching the birds and blooms dance in the labyrinth, the long braids are long gone now, and my short hair is greying. I am a grandmother, a partner, a sister, a friend, a lover, a writer, a gardener, a walker, a reader, a mother. I look in the mirror and see my mother's dark brown eyes, surrounded by lifelines, looking out at me."- Excerpt from Saved by Love: An incomplete memoirgloria fern lives on the southern shores of Georgi...

CITY gay goes up-country in a nutty, cheesy tale …High up in their condo with the million-dollar lake view, John and Greg’s free-wheeling city dream comes to an end after one too many stolen bicycles. Soon after, the life partners are riding the wave of real estate prices right out of the city.Their rural route ends up turning right down a cattail-lined concession, into the wild green yonder of Southwestern Ontario. On a Century Farm with sixty goats and th...

When Mavis Himes, a psychoanalyst with an established practice of over forty years, began to contemplate retirement, she decided to learn to play the cello.From meeting her teacher in an overcrowded café, through the demanding task of cello practice with its persistent strains and stresses on the body, Himes found a growing appreciation of music's power on her own well-being. An unfortunate bicycle accident resulting in serious injuries to her left arm threw her mu...

Don't worry -- the Kesslers know that parents aren't perfect. But they do believe that imperfect parents can raise their children on the foundation of a perfect system: the laws of nature, in particular the principle of causality -- that every action causes an equal and opposite reaction. The Kesslers show parents practical ways to teach their kids -- from infancy to young adulthood -- that negative actions cause negative results, and positive actions cause positive results, equipping them...

Regulatory compliance has historically been a concern of only a company’s legal and finance departments. However, as e-commerce continues to dominate retail both in the United States and abroad, regulatory compliance is now a major area of concern for IT managers, everyone on executive teams, and entire boards of directors.Amid a recoiling global marketplace and bigger and more costly cyberattacks, the nexus of “what can our networks do” versus “what are ou...

WILLIAM GAIRDNER has published a dozen books, a half-dozen journal articles, and hundreds of insightful essays online. As a consequence, many eager to read his work, are not sure where to begin. Disruptive Essays was created to help them. It is what some call a "Reader," offering a fascinating and varied selection from his bestselling books, articles, and blogs. The disruptive title was chosen because, as Gairdner warns: "***There Are No Safe Spac...

Colonel Hugh Clark was born on May 6th, 1867 on a farm on the Tenth Concession north of Kincardine, Ontario. He was a schoolteacher, a newspaperman, Lieutenant Colonel in the 32nd Bruce Regiment, and both a Provincial and Federal politician. He was still writing newspaper articles up until his death in 1959 and at that time was thought to be the oldest acting journalist in Canada. This book is a collection of his stories of local characters from Kincardine and Bruce County...

Stephen Barker was in his mid-thirties and leading a pretty normal life … until his world was turned upside down when he went blind.In this inspiring and humorous memoir, Stephen chronicles how, within a relatively short time span, he had to face the fear and the challenges of blindness and the trauma of losing close family members to cancer.The turning point came when he discovered the Lions Foundation Dog Guides program and was given his “new set of eyes,” a black Labrado...

In this book, Burton Kellock explains how Canadian law teachers, their students, politicians and the general public have been induced to believe that the Canadian Constitution authorizes the Parliament of Canada to impose federal taxes for the purpose of donating the proceeds of those taxes to the governments of the provinces in defiance of the Constitution. The truth is that the Fathers of Confederation decided that this should not and could not be done under the Constitu...

By the time he was thirty, SYD KESSLER was a millionaire many times over, the epitome of the poor kid making good. But inside him, a hollowness was taking hold, and later, in middle age, he fell seriously ill. In the dark days of a long recovery, Kessler explored the Kabbalah and the discoveries of quantum physics, developing a system of moral principles from the truths of how the universe began and operates. His set of principles -- from Big Bang to Moral Cause and Effect...

The French Traveler -- Letters to “Chère Madame”Adventure, Exploration & Indian Life In Eighteenth-Century CanadaThe First English Translation of The 1768 Bestseller “Le Voyageur Français”Translation and Commentary by William D. Gairdner, PhDFrom the very first page, readers are thrown into scenes of gigantic, crushing “ice monsters” in the high arctic, dangerous exploration among hardy and curious Eskimos,...