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Continue reading →: May Theme: Micro-fictionI suggested (okay, stated outright) that I was going to return to the idea of each month of 2025 having a writing theme beginning May 1st. That plan calls for a piece of micro-fiction every day in May, May Micro, if you’ll excuse the alliteration, which I’m going to do…
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Continue reading →: Cultural ProgrammingThe cultural programming you’re force fed as a child runs deep. I’ve been an open atheist for several decades, but do you know how many stupid hymns and Christian children’s songs still live rent-free in my head? Sometimes it seems like all of them. Apparently, Aristotle said something to the…
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Continue reading →: Canada’s Election Results – My PerspectiveI went to bed last night late enough that we knew we’d have a Liberal government, but no one could say for sure whether it would be a minority or a majority government. It looked like it was trending minority, but there were still enough ridings with close races that…
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Continue reading →: Happy Election Eve
Here in Canada, it’s already Election Eve. Those of us who didn’t vote in the advance polls have one more sleep until it’s time to do the bare minimum civic duty and we figure out which party or parties gets to govern for the next little while. We have a…
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Continue reading →: Grandma’s Sand Cake RecipeI don’t know why I’m thinking about this lately. Maybe because I haven’t made it for a while. Sand Cake is a traditional Danish (Sandkage) coffee cake, apparently very common in Denmark when my father’s family emigrated, and is named for its golden appearance not dryness. It’s likely still common,…
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Continue reading →: Final Drafts and AudioA thought occurred to me recently regarding what is usually the final draft of a story for me (Footnote 1). That draft has me read the story out loud to make sure I haven’t missed anything that needs to be fixed. If I can’t get a sentence out verbally, it…
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Continue reading →: Some Anniversaries Are HardIt’s been a year since Mom died, a year filled with first withouts. First birthdays without Mom, including hers. First Christmas without Mom. First anniversary without Mom. Everything that she’d normally have been involved in, every family chat or gathering, every visit, every phone call, she wasn’t there, and we…
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Continue reading →: SF Saturday – Alien Nation S01E19, “Rebirth”Or episode 18 if you count the pilot as Episode 0 like IMDB does. Most folks who are even aware of the franchise are probably a lot more familiar with the James Caan, Mandy Patinkin alien buddy copy movie. Some folks will know, but probably haven’t seen, that there was…
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Continue reading →: Fri-ku for 11 Apr 2025
(technically written last Friday) Branching paths stretch out As the scattering begins– Joy and sadness mixed
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Continue reading →: Monthly Themes RevistedIn spite of all the careful planning to make it the easiest term of my undergraduate degree, life found ways of making Winter term of fourth year far tougher than I wanted. But I’m a grad student now—well, technically on May 1st—and supposed to have a tiny bit of free…
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