Wednesday in Portsmouth When I left for Portsmouth, I was determined to visit the refloated Tudor-era shipwreck, the Mary Rose, on the grounds of the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. As I continued my investigations, however, I found out that the admission to the display was part of general admission to the dockyard. To get in the door cost 36 pounds which was about 70 Canadian dollars. Someone told me that the admission was good for a year, but the yearly pass was actually slig

Montreal Eclipse I am writing this account of my August 2026 trip to see a second eclipse after viewing my first in my garden in Montreal in April 2024. I think, as we get older, we tend to live more in the moment. Does everyone become more analytical? When I tried to recall what I did yesterday, I realized that many of my activities had faded into a blur, so I am looking to put interesting events in writing before I forget them. The trip began years before the actual departu

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Tracing Family History in a Foreign Location Montreal author, Norman Spatz recently released his fourth novel on Amazon/Kindle. This is...

The concept of history, as we know it, is a latecomer to formal study. From Rome through the Dark Ages to the Middle Ages, accounts of...

Is the tail wagging the dog? This is my first blog post on my new website titled ‘Norman Spatz Author’. I worked as the English editor of...