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It’s September 30th. In Canada, that means National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It means orange shirts, social posts, politicians looking solemn for the cameras. It means half my inbox stuffed with “we acknowledge we work on unceded land” from companies that would rather eat glass than give land back. It also means kids wereContinue reading “Orange Shirts and Ghosts We Don’t Bury”

Day 42 was seven days ago. A full week. I have stepped back from publishing, but not from writing. The universe keeps handing me material, some of it even writing itself. This past week, for example, I got tired of the same canonization of someone’s idea of a saint over on Facebook (I haven’t finishedContinue reading “42, Plus Seven”

There are a lot of feelings that I’ve been sifting through lately, and of course day 42 would land today. I have blogged every day for the last 41 days, and planned to end my current streak at 42. I didn’t have anything philosophical or witty planned to wrap with. But the weight of todayContinue reading “Day 42”

I keep circling back to the idea of getting a small couch or futon for the studio. Part of me wants it just so I can chill down here instead of having to go up one or two floors – it’s all about the convenience comforts. But the problem is, it would run right intoContinue reading

Tonight smells like neighbourhood sweet weed and pure exhaustion.

And so begins my attempt at starting and finishing an audio book in a reasonable amount of time. I’ve already had to start it over because I missed some bits.

When my younger sister told me that my nephew was asking to play football, I had very strong mixed feelings about it. His dad played football (his grandfather did too, he actually went all the way to the CFL!). It was a pretty common thing for the high schools back in my day, so muchContinue reading “What Were We Doing There?”

Today was a great, though busy, day. I didn’t get much sleep, but I spent a good chunk of time outside and got a game of D&D in. I’m wrapping it up online window shopping for a new gaming rig build for a friend’s kid. That more than makes up for how tired I feel!

One of my teammates put up a poll in one of our company-wide Slack channels today: Team Jeremiah or Team Conrad? I didn’t, although I should’ve honestly, expect the ChatGPT theories would surface. But they did. And of course they did, we’re all in on generative AI after all. While I won’t tell you whichContinue reading “Oh Belly”

I love back to school season. I’m excited for the new school year of opportunities that await everyone, but especially for our nephews and niece, my friends’ kids and my friends who are teachers. I have fond back to school memories. Some that aren’t so stellar, too, but they don’t outweigh the good. I wentContinue reading “day thirty five”