Month: November 2023

I need a life coach

  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..

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JFK Assassination

  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..

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Lost in Translation

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..

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Acronymonious

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,..

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Anne is the true artist in our home

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,..

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Alice Munro Blog

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..

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Unsafe at any speed

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,..

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It’s all in the condiments

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..

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