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Category Archives: Writing
Prince Charming
She called me Prince Charming. Who really understands why kids think the way they do? Kristina had just landed a job as a governess for a precocious two-and-a-half year old, and she had locked herself out of the family’s home. She needed to borrow my car but, since it held no car seat, her new [...]
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Steve Jobs – A Legacy of Storytelling
Artists are our storytellers. Since our ancestors’ earliest days, we’ve told stories about our dreams, our heroes and villains, our struggles. About how we live and how we die. If we are to find peace and understand our commonalities, we must have stories. Over the last 25 years, creation has been reborn and democratized by [...]
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Conflict and Storytelling
The characters in the Secrets of the Hotel Maisonneuve were a sweet gift. I woke from the long nightmare that was 14 years of daily migraines, and found an idea for a late-middle reader swimming around in my recently-unaddled brain. Interestingly, the story swirled around characters created by Kristina for a picture book that she [...]
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Breathing Space
The hardest thing about this year hasn’t been learning that I was misdiagnosed, and that I lost a more than a decade of my life to a lazy medical mistake. It’s been the financial pressures forced on us by being chronically underemployed. As with many illnesses, the timing couldn’t have been worse. Last November, Kristina [...]
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Dragons, Queries, and the Shards of Narsil
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. None of my plans for this year have come to fruition, yet I still feel as if I’ve handled a difficult illness with a modicum of grace and good humor. And that, and a double-loonie, will get you a cup of coffee at [...]
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Bait
I don’t often enter writing contests. But I took an hour on Monday morning to work on an idea that seemed to fit, and then entered Jason Evans’s Clarity of the Night contest. Several writing friends have already done so. In a nutshell, writers create 250 words of prose or poetry based on a prompt [...]
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I Would Like Some Cheese With My Whine
Funny what excites some men. A few weeks ago, when Kristina noticed that I have a modest two-pack, I felt flush with potential. Perhaps it wasn’t too late to become what I might have been. I’ve always been one of the fittest people I know. I was training for my sandan (third-degree black belt) in [...]
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Words to Live By
Words matter. It shouldn’t surprise anyone to learn that I love our language — the way words sound, the nuances and shades of meaning, the incredible choices available to all of us. The English language is mellifluous and beautiful, with so many virtues that I could scarcely name them all. It’s flexible and adaptable, but [...]
Is This Microphone On?
The intrepid Peter Dudley — a man among men which, interestingly, makes him a man among many women — asked writing friends to post audio or video clips that show us reading recent work. (I may not have done this properly, but I don’t fraking care! It’s been a rough month. :-) Making a recording [...]
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Good News and Bad News
The first step in overcoming a problem is admitting that you have one. Normally, I don’t have much difficulty facing reality, but this truth is staring me in the face, and I keep looking away. I need to work on my poker face. Maybe I should ease you into it, and write a little about [...]
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