Some mornings I wake up and before my toes even touch the floor the day says to me “Listen man, I can’t give you much else today, but at least you’ll catch the bus.” And I’m late leaving the house for one reason and another, so when I do get to the crosswalk the other […]
Last week I read a quote about writing that I quite liked, but I couldn’t remember where I saw it, what it said, or who said it. I only remembered I liked it.
A short poem about finding hope in an unexpected place by a person who has no experience being hopeful. Sometimes hope finds you, I guess.
The frog in boiling water metaphor gets an update, and we all learn a little something about our place in the world. Kidding, this will not make you smarter.
My parents own an old cottage on the far side of a small northern Ontario lake. When I was a kid it didn’t have hydro or running water, but it had a hand pump.
I’ll give you some advice to picking a career. There’s four things. Number one, got to be mostly enjoyable — nothing in life is completely enjoyable. Number two, it has to be a worthy challenge — boredom will kill your brain. Number three, you have to have the reasonable expectation of success. Like me going […]
It was inevitable that the trees would rebel against the human colonizers. Centuries of abuse, and the senseless slaughter of millions of their kind had left them with no recourse.
The knots in the pine table stared accusingly at Parson. He wondered what he ever did to make the table dislike him. He pulled his morning coffee closer.
A nonsensical little free verse my brain spit out while chilling in the backyard waiting for sausages to grill, and staring casually at the passing clouds.
I turned fifty today! I spent the morning writing, listening to Maiden and generally just being in a good mood. You should try it, it’s a good time.