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May 21, 2026
Poetry

Sunset

Sunset fades into darknessedged by violet and green,fuzzed at the horizonin a wisp of fogwaiting to descendand drop prisms of wateron the morning leavesdraped on the sumacthat rings my garden. Family fades to distanceedged by glints of sunlight,fuzzed by adventures callin a line of asphaltwaiting to be drivenbetween McDonalds french

Life

Diversity is Strength

I have been thinking about this a lot, especially with the end of Pride Month and Canada Day upon us, with all the attacks on immigrants and LGBTQ+ people we see on TV, or in some folks cases their own street. I am lucky, ‘blessed’ might be too strong of

Poetry

We Have Warts

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

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

Geekstuff

PUrl

A few years ago I was in need of a way to collect and organize the scabillion bookmarks I collect in my wanderings on the web. Being as I had a perfectly good Apache running the simple solution was a webapp with javascript on the front end and php on