Category Archives: Alzheimer’s

Great People: Home Town Heroes

  from Charles Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit Great People: Home Town Heroes *from my book Chasing a Butterfly to mark my soft launch and signing Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 7:00 p.m. at the ACT Theatre, Maple Ridge, BC Great People: Home Town … Continue reading

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Up There

  Up There He’ll Liven Things Up, Up There Inspired by the news that Chuck Berry had passed on. And where did he pass on to? Must be Up There, to entertain the saints Where he’ll jam with all the … Continue reading

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Wasn’t It A Party?

  WASN’T IT A PARTY? A lighthearted take on the Irish Rovers’ song as a lookback to our Celebration of Life For my late wife Ann. With my thanks to all who partied. Wasn’t it party? Wellllll…. Wasn’t it a … Continue reading

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You Don’t Owe Me

  You Don’t Owe Me We lived, we loved, perhaps too hard… But now we part, I hold the card. You think that you have hurt my heart. But you don’t owe me. I’ve only done my little part, You’ve … Continue reading

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Whiskey Jack, Whiskey Jack

  To The Whiskey Jack Eight years old in northern Sask and chopping wood, My axe is poised o’erhead to split a block, Weasel pops his head outside the pile of wood, I wield the axe, add kindling to the … Continue reading

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Stand Up Stand Up

  Stand Up, Stand Up: You Are Strong Stand up, stand up for the poor, The disenfranchised and the ableless, Stand up for the homeless, Never turn them from your door. Stand up, stand up for what is right, Fight … Continue reading

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You, Advocate: You are your loved one’s advocate

  You, Advocate: You Are Your Loved One’s Advocate HB You are your loved one’s Advocate. Who else will stand up for him? You know his heart very well, His habits, his mores, his needs, And it’s fight! Fight! FIGHT! … Continue reading

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