'There's a blue rocking chairSittin in the sandWeathered by the storms and well old handsHe sways back and forth with the help of the winds,Seems to always be there,like an old trusted friend I've read a lot of books,Wro…
Gone to the cottage...Be back soon with a completed novel under my arm...Light reading: Rum Punch - Elmore Leonard Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk Metaphysical Poems and Lyrics of the Seventeenth Century Co…
So, it's set. I leave in four days to a cottage in Tobermory, Ontario. Eight days by myself with just my laptop, cameras, music and food. My aunt is letting me use her cottage for the week where all I have to do is re…
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,It isn't just one of your holiday games;You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatterWhen I tell you, a cat must have THREE …
BREAKING NEWS...NEW YORK (AP) - Renee Zellweger, who played the lovelorn Brit in "Bridget Jones's Diary," and country music star Kenny Chesney will have their four-month-old marriage annulled, Chesney's publicist, Holly …
Sometimes you wonderWhere do people goWhen they disappear from hereI guess we just have to hopeEverything is okayand not shed any Tears...
I've been having a hard time writing the final Legend of Bubba Kitten. There is so much to write about him that a final legend doesn't seem right. It's more like I got him for one of his nine lives and now I can see an…
It took me twenty-seven years to get this on my back...The new one only took me minutes to decide on and nothing is going to make me change my mind. It'll be my tribute to him... and he will always walk with me once I h…
Used Bookstore Find of the Day...Metaphysical Poetry of the 17th Century - Donne to Butler Hardcover - Copyright 1928Inscribed - Earle M. Harvey, Brown UniversityAccording to the woman at the store, Earle's wife brought …
The Legend of Bubba Kitten, Part II...The Myth of the Sock-Stealing Furball(Originally Posted, Tuesday, December 02, 2003)As far back as I can remember there has always been a myth, or an urban legend, that's been passed…
"We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish …
I may disappear for a few days... It's going to be hard for a while, but I just keep telling myself that it's for the best, and I know in the end it is. I loved him with every fibre of my being and I know he knows it. …
How do I love you Well let me see I love you like a lyric loves a melody Baby, completely Wrapped up in you How do I need you Can't you tell I need you like a penny Needs a wishing well Baby, completely Wrapped up i…
What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. - Burton RoscoeThe New View From My Desk... And as always...We do not write because we want to; we write …
The soundtrack to tonight's writing....Oh, the streets of rome are filled with rubble,Ancient footprints are everywhere.You can almost think that you’re seein’ doubleOn a cold dark night on the spanish stairs. Got to hur…
And now, another episode of Beer Store Drive-Thru Theatre...When we last left our workers, Mat, Elise and Brent were feeling the effects of the midnight shift, and the sheer stupidity of the customers who come through at…
A few months ago Douglas Coupland said to the group of us..."Now that I look back, I'm glad that when I was seventeen, there was a seventeen year old making all my decisions for me."For some reason that line has been rep…
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