This is not a picture of a life coach. This individual is a hockey coach. He probably needed a life coach. Until very recently, I did not know that there was such a thing as a life coach. Now I’m told that I need one. “A life coach is a type of wellness professional who..
Month: November 2023
Book launch…Here’s the announcement of the event to launch My Time with You Has Been Short but Very Funny here in Dijon France: Event at the local English Bookstore: Book reading with author Robert McBryde. His book is a collection of stories and sketches exploring the humour, absurdity and sadness of everyday life. Robert is..
The JFK assassination: A Child’s Eye View… Friday, November 22, 1963. I was 11 years old, in grade 7. It was a typical late fall school day, chilly and gray, in my hometown of Georgetown, Ontario. Our teacher, Mrs. Evans, whom everyone called Beaky, read to us from the Bible, lengthy segments as she..
Robert McBryde Author: literary translation, CBC radio, literary non-fiction, vignettes and sketches, immigrant experience, living in Quebec and in France, childhood and animal stories, creative memoirs, satire, autobiography, family relations, raising children, aging, travel, social commentary, love and marriage, driving lessons, self-deprecation, Dijon France, condiments, translation: English-French; French-English Publisher’s Note: Funny, manic, and wistful… self-deprecating..
Robert McBryde Author: “Acronyms are a plague at the best of times, but given that the word salad generated by the Quebec education bureaucracy stems from French while its acronyms are applied in the English-language system, the inevitable acronymonius muddification is exponentially fuzzified.” Acronyms, Quebec history, Quebec politics, CGEP system, satire, CBC radio, literary non-fiction,..
Today’s post features a poem and a story about my wife, Anne Schlenker McBryde. It also showcases her art. The poem is titled Anne is the true artist in our homeWe need beauty because it makes us yearn to be worthy of it. -Mary Oliver Robert McBryde Author: art, poetry, CBC radio, literary non-fiction,..
Robert McBryde Author: Alice Munro, CBC radio, literary non-fiction, vignettes and sketches, immigrant experience, living in Quebec and in France, childhood and animal stories, creative memoirs, satire, autobiography, family relations, raising children, aging, travel, social commentary, love and marriage, driving lessons, self-deprecation, Dijon France, condiments, translation: English-French; French-English Publisher’s Note: Funny, manic, and wistful… self-deprecating..
Robert McBryde Author: CBC radio, literary non-fiction, vignettes and sketches, immigrant experience, living in Quebec and in France, childhood and animal stories, creative memoirs, satire, autobiography, family relations, raising children, aging, travel, social commentary, love and marriage, driving lessons, self-deprecation, translation: English-French; French-English Publisher’s Note: Funny, manic, and wistful… self-deprecating creative nonfiction…The author, Robert McBryde,..
Robert McBryde Author: CBC radio, literary non-fiction, vignettes and sketches, immigrant experience, living in Quebec and in France, childhood and animal stories, creative memoirs, satire, autobiography, family relations, raising children, aging, travel, social commentary, love and marriage, driving lessons, self-deprecation, Dijon France, condiments, translation: English-French; French-English Publisher’s Note: Funny, manic, and wistful… self-deprecating creative nonfiction…The..