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My Murderer
Butcher, baker, candlestick maker. Is there a rhyme that includes “murderer”? Perhaps not. But I knew a murderer once, maybe the most reviled and notorious murderer in the community of Canadian letters, Roy Lowther. He beat his wife—the poet Pat Lowther—to death with a hammer in the summer of 1975, and dumped her body in […]
How I Wrote a Story With Tennessee Williams
July 2, 2012
I don’t know about all artists, but some seem only to thrive within an intimate audience. After Mark Twain’s wife died, he never finished another book. The number of art school students who surrendered art abruptly upon leaving school is significant, which I connect to this loss of audience. I’ve heard some explain that they […]
Grandpa Theo
With Malaika
Klick This Pic
An Informal Chronology of the Aboriginal Land Question in BC
Father Theo's Blog 
July 23, 2014
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