Reflections

Happy Saturday! This has been the craziest week I’ve had in a long time! First and foremost, I’ve been writing my butt off. I finished the full first draft of a thriller serial. I finally got my new glasses, so I can see the screen crystal clear again. I’ve just put eight books into my […]

Happy Saturday! DIET stands for “Did I Eat That?” Congratulations to Paul, Sandy, Dina, Sherrie, and Bill for guessing correctly last weekend that Tracy and I are the vegans. (The five of you should keep an eye on your inbox in a couple weeks. There may be a little something special show up. Shhhh…don’t tell

This summer, we had to put new shingles on our house. Our next door neighbor, as it happens, does that for a living. As does his son. So, being good neighbors, we hired them to do it. During the course of conversation with the father one evening, I mentioned that my wife, Tracy, and I

Happy Saturday! People fascinate me. At least half the time, we don’t know why we do what we do. I suspect the other half of the time, we’re operating on autopilot and don’t care why we do what we do. Last week, I had a devil of a time coming up with a post to

Happy Saturday! I hope your 2022 is going well. Part of last week’s post, I spoke about my time as a bartender and the two customers with their B-52s, and it reminded me of another experience that included B-52s. My friend, Kevin’s eighteenth birthday. Kevin actually turned eighteen some four months before I did —

Happy Saturday! It’s been three weeks since I’ve posted one of these. As I said in my last post, with Christmas and New Years on a Saturday this year, we all have a crap ton of things to do, so I’d pick it up again today. I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday!

It’s been my personal tradition every Christmas season, for many years, to sit down at watch Leo Buscaglia’s Stories of Christmas Love and I did that last night. Back in the stone age, it used to air annually on PBS. I eventually bought the DVD from PBS as part of a set. (If you’re curious,

Yesterday at breakfast, my wife, Tracy, turned to me and said, “It’s December 10th. It’s been a year since Merry left us.” I had been thinking about that just a few days before but, in all the everydayness that we have around here, it slipped my mind. I immediately felt a twinge of guilt. How

Remember Art Linkletter? I sure do. I was having a wander through the internet this week and tripped over a little bit of trivia. Art Linkletter, probably best known for the creation of the television show Kids Say The Darndest Things, was born in Moose Jaw. (If you remember, I was talking about Moose Jaw

Isn’t it funny, some of the stupid memories we retain as we grow older? As I write this in early November, 2021, I’m 56 years old. While I couldn’t tell you, minute-by-minute, what happened yesterday, there are lots of snatches and moments that I can, of course, recall with clarity. After all, it was only

Back in my wrestling days, I toured all over Western Canada — our circuit ranged from as far west (and south) as Vancouver, as far east as Winnipeg, and as far north as Fort McMurray. We put on a lot of miles, probably close to 100,000 every year. And, of course, when you’re on the

One of the questions that every writers gets is, “Where do you get your ideas?” The best answer I’ve heard so far was from Robert Heinlein, who answered that he subscribed to the Schenectady Creative Writer’s Idea Club and once a month, they sent him ideas in the mail. Although, I suppose these days, that’d