A year ago, just before Thanksgiving, our dear friend Linda handed over a small jar filled with a nondescript white paste. She assured me it was “the good stuff.” It was a sourdough starter. Linda had cultivated it in her earthen-tiled kitchen, where log beams radiate the quiet strength of the forest many miles away….
I went on a pilgrimage Not to Mecca, or the Wailing Wall Not to Graceland, or the tombs of other saints This was a tiny pilgrimage I stood by the ruins of our old family home Kicking rocks into the burnt out basement Letting the ghosts swirl So young and sure of themselves Yet clueless…
This article originally appeared in Elephant Journal – here. One-hit wonder. When you read those words, you probably recall an earworm of a song. Like perhaps Chumbawamba’s “Tubthumping”. For children of the eighties like my wife Valerie and me, maybe it is “Relax” from Frankie Goes to Hollywood or Valerie’s personal favourite “Take On Me”…
cur·mudg·eon /kərˈməjən/ noun noun: curmudgeon; plural noun: curmudgeons 1. a bad-tempered person, especially an old one. Hello, my name is Alistair Schroff. There are perhaps as many blogs on the internet as there are internet users. Does the world need another one? Maybe not. Wait – probably not. Or so says the curmudgeonly side of…