Mary W. Walters 🇨🇦
@marywwalters.com
Writer of fiction and blogs. Lives in Toronto. Occasional humorist. Stoic in Training. marywwalters.com Slava Ukraini
Sometimes one is inspired to write a short something. Free. marywwalters.substack.com/p/a-very-sma...
A Very Small Essay
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November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Sometimes one is inspired to write a short something. Free. marywwalters.substack.com/p/a-very-sma...
Just noticed for the first time in my life (I think) how Leonard Cohen spelled Lady's Man (as in Death of a). #downsizing
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Just noticed for the first time in my life (I think) how Leonard Cohen spelled Lady's Man (as in Death of a). #downsizing
Amazing Montserrat and the Benedictine Monastery there, which we visited in September. iamallwrite.com/2025/11/09/s...
Spain 3: The Abbey of Santa Maria in Montserrat and the “Black Madonna”
Travel date: Sunday, September 14, 2025 Traces of sunlight through mist and fog put the magical final touches to this excursion. At first we were disappointed to drive into low-hanging clouds as we…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Amazing Montserrat and the Benedictine Monastery there, which we visited in September. iamallwrite.com/2025/11/09/s...
I think the Dems should vote to get rid of the filibuster and let the Republicans decide what to do when it is suddenly all on them.
November 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I think the Dems should vote to get rid of the filibuster and let the Republicans decide what to do when it is suddenly all on them.
Our September visit to The Sagrada Familia (which today became the tallest church in the world)
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Spain 2: The Sagrada Familia, and we meet our travel group
Travel date: Saturday, September 13, 2025 One of our most eagerly anticipated destinations in Spain was The Sagrada Familia, the basilica in Barcelona that was designed and partially built under th…
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October 31, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Our September visit to The Sagrada Familia (which today became the tallest church in the world)
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TTC Line 4 at 10 p.m. when the Blue Jays are playing in the World Series. #Toronto
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October 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
TTC Line 4 at 10 p.m. when the Blue Jays are playing in the World Series. #Toronto
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I want to live long enough to find out what Putin has on Trump -- and then for another thirty years or so after that, so I can thoroughly enjoy it.
October 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I want to live long enough to find out what Putin has on Trump -- and then for another thirty years or so after that, so I can thoroughly enjoy it.
Start of my Spain Travel Blog iamallwrite.com/2025/10/13/s...
Spain 1: Arrival in Barcelona, and Park Güell
Travel date: Friday September 12, 2025 Last month we went to Spain. Now I’m going to tell you about our trip. It may take me a long time to do all the posts, because the longer I draw out thi…
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October 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Republicans saying they'll negotiate on health care right away if the Dems end the shutdown reminds me of how Lucy holds the football for Charlie Brown.
October 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Republicans saying they'll negotiate on health care right away if the Dems end the shutdown reminds me of how Lucy holds the football for Charlie Brown.
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I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels
Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive
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October 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
I wrote a book review #SevenMoonsofMaaliAlmeida @ShehanKaru marywwaltersbookreviews.wordpress.com
Mary W. Walters: Book Reviews
a once-in-a-while blog
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October 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I wrote a book review #SevenMoonsofMaaliAlmeida @ShehanKaru marywwaltersbookreviews.wordpress.com
Nothing helps you kill your darlings more effectively than a funding application with word limits and a deadline. #writerspeak #grantwriting
September 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Nothing helps you kill your darlings more effectively than a funding application with word limits and a deadline. #writerspeak #grantwriting
If they're talking about Bolton, they're not talking about Epstein.
August 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
If they're talking about Bolton, they're not talking about Epstein.
A grasshopper just flew into my eye. (Neither of us was harmed.) That's an omen of good luck, right?
August 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A grasshopper just flew into my eye. (Neither of us was harmed.) That's an omen of good luck, right?
"Abertillery." A personal essay. #Wales iamallwrite.com/2025/08/03/a...
Abertillery
(In August, 1999, I took a one-day excursion from my first-ever visit to London England to visit the town in Wales where my father had been born. He died when I was 2 and I knew very little about h…
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August 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Abertillery." A personal essay. #Wales iamallwrite.com/2025/08/03/a...
Happy No Kings day. Long may it rain (in DC).
June 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Happy No Kings day. Long may it rain (in DC).
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The internet isn't what it used to be. Half of what I see horrifies me and makes me sick and fearful for humanity, and the rest of it I don't believe because it looks like it might have been generated by AI. And yet, like the moth to the flame, here I am.
June 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The internet isn't what it used to be. Half of what I see horrifies me and makes me sick and fearful for humanity, and the rest of it I don't believe because it looks like it might have been generated by AI. And yet, like the moth to the flame, here I am.
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“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’”
--Olga Tokarczuk
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--Olga Tokarczuk
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Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels, no one swears by it, no one cites it… It appears wherever we t…
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May 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’”
--Olga Tokarczuk
www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/21/t...
--Olga Tokarczuk
www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/21/t...
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Kermit the Frog giving a better commencement speech than the POTUS was not on my 2025 BINGO card.
May 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Kermit the Frog giving a better commencement speech than the POTUS was not on my 2025 BINGO card.
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DO NOT try to impeach him. You'll just increase his support again as it is finally eroding.
With best wishes from a Canadian.
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With best wishes from a Canadian.
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Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff says he ‘strongly’ agrees Trump needs to be impeached | CNN Politics
Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff told a voter in Georgia on Friday that he “strongly” agrees that President Donald Trump needs to be impeached.
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May 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
DO NOT try to impeach him. You'll just increase his support again as it is finally eroding.
With best wishes from a Canadian.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...
With best wishes from a Canadian.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...
US Republicans remind me of those talking dolls we used to have. You pulled a string on the doll's back and pre-recorded sentences came out, which were almost always unrelated to the question you had asked. Same talking points were built into all the dolls.
May 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
US Republicans remind me of those talking dolls we used to have. You pulled a string on the doll's back and pre-recorded sentences came out, which were almost always unrelated to the question you had asked. Same talking points were built into all the dolls.