I’ve had to take a few tests in my time, I mean, I made it through public school and high school and got a diploma of some sort from college.
And outside of school I’ve had to take various tests in order to be allowed to do different things in life, drive, save someone from a stabbing wound caused by a shard of glass using nothing but my wits, a dixie cup, electrical tape, a box of Read more
Some years ago I found myself to be in some sorrow.
I had spent twenty-seven years as a married man. Life had its ups and downs, as it should, and I learned to gather enjoyment from both the good times and from our ability to deal with the not so good times.
All that ended the day after my twenty-seventh wedding anniversary when Read more
Fiction is not lying. That’s not what I’m talking about when I talk about the lies some writers tell. And writers aren’t liars for writing fiction. Far from it. They’re telling a sort of truth that is purer than any fact one might produce from experimentation and research.
How so? They’ve told you in advance that this is fiction. Therefore what you are reading is what is understood to be their thoughts, their creation. What could be purer or truer than that? Read more
Have you ever considered that writing is the art of manipulating words? And art is the correct word for it.
Like paint on a canvas or conté on paper, like the molding of clay or the carving of wood or stone, writing is the act of creating art. And writers are artists.
And being an artist is one of the Read more
I love to refer to myself as gainfully unemployed. It is both true, and untrue.
I work as an IT person for a local online news outlet, the owensoundhub.org, but I’m contracted to them. I end up spending less then ten hours a month at that. But I interact with the organization and I learn lots of things about my community.
I also still do the odd job for friends that need help with their renovations or their Read more
Have you ever been on the rocks? It’s a nautical term. Specifically it originated as a sailing term. It means that you can’t maneuver in any direction other than into peril. Specifically, the wind is such and the gear is such that you are heading for a reef or rocky shore and you do not have the time, skill, manpower and wind to save you from an assured wreck.
I’ve been there. Well, I mean, I’ve been in a situation where nothing I could do Read more
There’s a vast difference between a failure to be able to communicate what is in your heart, and having writer’s block. Writer’s block seems to be the result of not really having your heart in Read more
There are, it turns out one million four hundred and fifty three thousand and twelve reasons for my not writing at any given time. This number has been carefully calculated and I assure you of two things, one that it is accurate to within point oh seven reasons, and two … that I have no intention of counting those reasons again just to check.
I also, have no intention of going over the entire list with you. I will, in this space provided, list off some of the ones that are more likely to Read more