I’m Drilled On Mars
I’m excited to learn that my name is selected as a site on Mars. I am unable to easily find which John Klein it’s really named after, but I’ll take…
life
Traumatic stress on Besserer Street
Back in the late 1980s all the phones had cords. Long ones. Because you wanted to be able to walk around the entire raw concrete floored, fluourescent-lit, low-ceilinged light industrial…
Seven
Around this time in 2006 Irene and I were settling in to a room at the Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital, tired, bewildered, but crazy, heart-bursting in love with…
Shooting at a Place of Education
The mass shooting in Connecticut was tragic, and it’s amplified by instantaneous news making irresponsible reports, misidentifying accused suspects, and encouraging copy-cats by propelling the shooter to world-wide notoriety instead…
Mrs. Klein
One of the oddest things about death is that there’s no way to reach that person by their usual phone number. We can call people in Antarctica, in space, in…
Pink cast
Mallory and I went to CHEO today for a follow-up x-ray and examination of Mallory’s arm. And lo and behold she scored this stunning number. So Mallory has two weeks…
Pumpkins for 2012
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Buckle fracture
Last Tuesday Mallory fell off a play structure at school when another kid slammed into her. She came home complaining of arm pain and when it was clear that it…
Polls closing
The Saskatchewan civic election is winding up in half an hour. Polls close at 8pm, so get in line to vote ASAP if you haven’t yet. I’ll be out at…
Sherry of Wood Mountain
A well known Wood Mountain resident passed away recently after a long cancer illness. Sherry Mielke was a friend of my family, and it’s not going to be the same…
I wasn’t built for this
Whew. Seems busy today. And it seems like a while since I’ve been drawing, or putting up stuff here. First, the prints are well received, and a few sales are…
Civic Election
The civic elections for Regina and municipalities in Saskatchewan are coming up on Wednesday Oct. 24th, 2012. It’s more significant to me than most elections, because this is the first…
The history of the world through little squares of paper
My dad collected stamps for a large part of his life – from boyhood until some time in the late 1980s. And it seems he inherited his father’s stamp collection.…
M-312 Aborted, Questions Live On
If a pregnant woman with a 38 week old fetus is violently attacked and survives but the fetus dies there is no charge of murder. Is that just? Conservative MP…
And the farm is sold
Quite a pleasant surprise, really. I was expecting it to take a lot longer, but we were able to ride the new listing wave of interest all the way to…
The state of my brain 6
Filed under: digital, drawing, life Tagged: brain, Concussion
For sale: 1870s farm house near Alton, Ontario
It’s official. We’re selling the farm. It’s a beautiful four bedroom home on 38 acres of rural property in Caledon, Ontario. The front lot is full of forty year old…
Skitchy Booque / 39
Filed under: art Tagged: life
The state of my brain 5
Filed under: art, life Tagged: brain, Concussion
The state of my brain
Filed under: art, cartoon, comment, digital, drawing, life Tagged: always wear your helmet kids, brain, Concussion