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By Daniel Perry Published by Thistledown Press $18.95 978-1-77187-097-9 Hamburger, Daniel Perry’s new collection of short fiction published by Saskatoon’s Thistledown Press, is loaded with clever, provocative, thoughtful tales.

Mercury an evening object later in the month November opens with the moon just a few degrees west of Saturn, and nearby Venus a bit to the east makes a close grouping for the three objects.

Ever heard the expression, “Home is where the heart is?” Let me rephrase that question. “Who hasn’t?” It was a present in the form of a gift card from one of our granddaughters that got me thinking about the expression.

High net worth families often use family trusts for estate and succession planning. But because they are deemed to have sold all of their assets on each 21st anniversary, family trusts in effect have a tax life span of only 21 years.

Getting worried about the outcome of the U.S. election? If so, join the growing club.

Brutiful, as defined by Glennon Doyle Melton: "adj.: Life is brutal. And life is beautiful. Brutiful, I call it. Life’s brutal and beautiful are woven together so tightly they are inseparable. We must embrace both or neither.

What you are about to read is a rare occurrence in my industry. It will rub some of my peers the wrong way.

Ed, my old neighbour from Saskatchewan, is not a person to worry about details. I told him repeatedly that we were going to Ontario to attend a wedding in my wife’s family. I made it clear we would be gone seven days, but it was all lost on him.

Dear Editor Today’s English lesson: trumpery. This word has been used since the days of Shakespeare. It means showy but worthless finery, bric a brac, nonsense, rubbish; from trompert — to cheat. Robert Wood Battleford

Confucius once said that “everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” China may be today’s Confucian case in point. The bulls (if we may speak for the handful of them still holding their day jobs) are seemingly near extinction.