Essays

I like to cook. I have cookbooks that I rely on: The Joy of Cooking, the 1978 Better Homes and Gardens Book of Pies and Cakes, The Good Cooks Cookbook, and The Encyclopedia of Creative Cooking. 

Last August, I met an old friend I hadn't seen in years. I had thought about him occasionally and would always smile thinking of the adventurous times we had enjoyed.

I was stung by the blues long ago. Specifically, my fascination is with the harmonica, or, as it is called when it is used to play the blues, the "harp." It makes me smile, even giggle. And one time it transformed me.

Redemptorist priest, uncle, brother, leader of family cheers. Born Sept. 6, 1920, in Toronto. Died Feb. 7 in Toronto of cancer, aged 80.