Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do
Ah, Spring! The time of year when our thoughts turn away from mundane tasks such as shoveling snow while mummified to frolicking in public places wearing a Speedo and a smile. From toques and scarves and long underwear to the carefree state of déshabillé. But one likes to be fit if exposing so much of […]
People often ask me, “Hey mister, what is love?” Why they ask me I have no idea, but being a man of philosophical inquiry, a man interested in what great minds before mine pondered while they searched the davenport for loose change to settle up with the doxy, I set to musing on this vexing […]
Sending and receiving mail – real mail, not electronic gibberish – has long been one of the many pleasures in my life. I reckon I post over two hundred pieces of mail each year, and while I receive only about one-tenth in return the main point of the exercise, for me, is entertaining myself…and maybe […]
It was 196_ , when I was a wee lad of eight years, that I met Mr. Hockey himself, Gordie Howe. My parents were on holiday at the time and my brother and I were staying with family friends. They noted that Gordie Howe was coming to town and would be signing autographs at Eaton’s […]
My Bully Story Wherein the Author, in Tender Youth, Learns a Rather Painful Lesson and Reflects on the Delicate Balance Between Being Bullied and Being a Bully Oneself Once upon a time, in a junior high school situated in a sleepy little community on an enchanted island, there was a nice young man […]
I‘ve always preferred using a pencil to a pen simply because they are far superior in every way, and always have been. For instance, pencils were so revered in olden times that Shakespeare has his Hamlet soliloquize, “2B or not 2B…” in one of the most famous poems ever written. It’s about hardness. Plus […]
MY SUMMER VACATION By Robbie Swanson Grade 6 Ms. Barnard Flew in an aeroplane from Kamloops Bee Cee to Vancouver Bee Cee to Victoria Bee Cee. Packed my fishing gear beer rum and cookies and went to Port Renfrew Bee Cee for one week of salmon fishing with pro guide Dave Hoban. Stayed at […]
The other kids all laugh at me, When I say I write poetry. “Mushy! Yucky!” they all taunt, “Sappy love words we don’t want!” “But,” I say with pencil raised, “Poems help us all to crack the maze, Of life, the world, and our place in it, Great stories told in just mere minutes!” “Baloney! […]
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C’MON ALREADY! Oh! Spring! Oh Spring! Please do your thing, It’s time for you to show. Come Spring! Come Spring! We’ve had our fling, With ice cream cold and snow. On Spring! On Spring! Stand up and sing, Don’t mumble in your porridge. Oh Spring! Dear Spring! I long to bring, My golf clubs out of storage.