We aren’t perfect,too many cold nights.mozzies and humidity,I suspect.We say “Sorry!”far too often IMHO,though unlike our neighbours,when we say it, we mean it!We don’t treat our First Nationswith the ‘Do Unto Others…’ rule,and we did have a head tax,on Chinese workers,and imprisoned Japanese folks,during WW2.But we did invent insulin,poutine and
Author: Mark
Geekstuff
Writer’s Pack
I realized that of the mini-apps I have created the ones I use most with writing projects are PyWrite (naturally!) and PUrl for collecting reference URLs, as well as a small utility that I wrote a while back to convert the Manuscript folder into a single EPUB I could edit
Life
Half Full or Half Empty?
(Originally an editorial in Teeswater.ca circa 2014) Are you a half full or half empty glass kind of person? I have always thought of myself in the former group, but last week I came close to joining the other side. Once a year JG, my wife and I take part
Life Recycling
Recycling – Toe To Head
If you know me IRL you will usually see me carrying a shoulder bag or fanny pack, back issues making it impossible for me to sit with a wallet in my hip pocket. A couple weeks back Sam and I made the journey (believe me OCTranspo on the weekend can
Poetry
When It Rains
When it rainsI can smell the grasstall against the salt spray,that clings loving to the logs,tossed on the beachby the southeaster tideflecked white and brown with foambeneath the leaden sky. The desert is an endless beigedrifting like a madwoman between the palmsand the dunes that yesterday were valleys,a grit that