This Grey Day
You are running, dust flying from your hair. You leave it all behind. I cannot keep up. Or perhaps you are whirling, twisting and turning in circles, spinning so fast…
Everything Else Drawer
Understudy
I bet you wish I was writing more, don’t you? Well. I sure wish I was writing more.
Attitude/Platitude
There is a very fine line between attitudes and platitudes. That may well be the most clever thing I have ever written in my life. With the exception of that…
I drank chalk
It was frigging awesome. First, they gave me something “to put air in my belly”. “It’s a solid gas,” she said. “It will dissolve in your mouth,” she said (it…
Even if they don’t hear you on the ice
They usually hear you in the stands. I accidentally hollered “THE NEUTRAL ZONE IS NOT A HOT TUB!” because our players were a little dawdly in today’s game (which started…
Truism
For every what if?, there is an equal, and opposite and then.
Pride
Hotel rooms make me think weird. Never mind the bloody *crippling* anxiety/panic attack I had yesterday for absolutely no reason (I was absolutely convinced that I was dying and ought…
What the hell am I thinking?
So. Um. I may have accidentally signed up for National Novel Writing Month again. I’m pretty sure that if I manage to complete anything this month, it will be the…
It is decided
I will vote for whoever is going to fix the goddamned family medical practice system in this province. Seriously. I thought there were some *rules* here. Such as: if your…
Something Ends and Something Goes On
Tonight, I was at the rink for the first time since April. It made me incredibly sad, and I don’t know why, really. Partly because while I love doing stuff…
I am the worst bournaller ever
The truth of it is that I am writing. Granted, I’m writing gaming stuff, but I’m writing. Which is cool, because I haven’t been able to write very much, and…
I had a Very Witty Title and Forboutagot it
For a while this morning, everything was normal. The sandy-haired gentleman sat at his kitchen table with a coffee and a bagel and seven or eight daily newspapers from all…
10th August fast approaches
Yours Truly has been invited to be one of the “Writers Reading” in Victoria Partk at Noon, I think, on Wednesday, 10th August. Which reminds me, I have to get…
What are you working on?
I’m trying to invent a LARP system.
Signals
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about signals. About how signals are more often than not ambiguous and/or prone to interpretation. Signals are everywhere; everything that commutes meaning or conveys…
Crowns and Kings
We have a cat. I have had cats since I was wee – my grandmother left food out for the neighbourhood cats because they kept the mice and snakes away…
Patriotic
The word ‘patriotism’ comes from the Latin ‘pater’, which means “father”, through the Greek ‘patris’ (fatherland) -> ‘patrios’ (of one’s fathers) -> ‘patriotes’ (fell...
Vilify Me
Eventually the only source of humour that will be socially and politically correct will be bodily functions, spoonerisms and puns, and the sort of humour where people inadvertently slip on…
Almost a week without rain
And the big news in health care today is that even though I waited very, very patiently for a very, very long time to see the new doctor (who seems…
Insidious
Insidious, or: How Nutella(TM) Roont My Children For some reason, The Captain thought it would be a Good Idea to take the *entire jar* of Nutella to school today, and…