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Apr 11

Just Beauties

Some linguists think the Genesis verse “fill the earth and subdue it” should be “fill the earth and revere it;” six days ago I saw it...

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William I. Atkinson

Jan 28

The Mindful Driver

We have our motives and justifications, we pleasure drivers. For one thing, we are counselled to be mindful, lest the minutiae of life...

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William I. Atkinson

Jan 12

The Sprites of Bonebreak Stair

There’s a low rail on the upper steps, no handgrip at all on the lower. Bonebreak Stair I call it, and hope that it doesn’t live up to its n

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William I. Atkinson

Jan 6

Am I Not a Man?

CanLit authors – and many are staggeringly talented, just wasting their talents in a doomed cause – might address the issues and conditions

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William I. Atkinson

Nov 29, 2020

A Terror in Tuscany

My purpose however is not to document such pleasures, but to reveal a profound horror that lurks behind Tuscany’s sublime façade.

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William I. Atkinson

Nov 1, 2020

Tick Talk: the Time Display as Oracle

The oracles don’t end there. Sleep in, and you suddenly see it’s 7:07 and you should have been in the shower half an hour ago. LOL indeed!

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William I. Atkinson

Mar 3, 2020

An American in Calgary

Full disclosure: I’m an American, born in Seattle – dad a US naval officer, mom the daughter of a Canadian banker.

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William I. Atkinson

Feb 18, 2020

A Murder of Crows

No doubt about it, the corvids - crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, and jays - can be a nasty bunch. Ravens have been seen in Yellowstone Park,

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My House is Not Your House. In Fact, It's Not Even My House.

William I. Atkinson

Jan 16, 2020

My House is Not Your House. In Fact, It's Not Even My House.

My dog is not my possession, said the letter. He is my equal and my friend. I have no moral or ethical rights over him.

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Hold the Knife: Rethinking Organ Donation

William I. Atkinson

Dec 13, 2019

Hold the Knife: Rethinking Organ Donation

It is for this reason, that I do not authorize any authority anywhere to take my organs in the event of what appears to be my death.

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End the Architectural Brutality. Please.

William I. Atkinson

Dec 2, 2019

End the Architectural Brutality. Please.

I have long experienced these buildings at close quarters. And my response is: Tear the damned things down.

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William I. Atkinson

Oct 10, 2019

Literacy x2

Hi all, and welcome to my new website. Here's some background: I loved SF as a kid, "but when I became a man, I put away childish...

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