I am an Immigrant
It makes the decision my parents had made to move lock stock and barrel to Canada, halfway around the world from everything they knew, all the more extraordinary. They could not have possibly understood all that lay ahead. I do know, as I have reflected back, that it was the greatest gift I have ever received.
I Want What Freddy Has
And off we went on a wild imaginative ride, full of characters and animals and monsters and adventure and climax and resolution. Freddy created a complete story without every having been taught how to put one together. And. he was joyful and spirited and physical and exuberant. Good Lord it was wonderful to be with him. It was Freddy and his good friend Joie de Vivre just loving life.
My Friend David
David Larsen was the greatest friend I ever had and one of the most important influences in my life. No man, save my father and my two sons has had more impact on my life. No man, save my father and my two sons have I loved as I have David.
An Oral Contract
“I’m sorry Tony, I know you don’t like to be interrupted before court but I had to see you. I’m heading out of town for a while, going down to Expo and I need you to deal with this bastard!”
Good Tony. Bad Tony.
Lincoln Man redoubled and went to open the door of his car. I went full Clint Eastwood on him, fixing him with an unblinking ‘I’m going to mess you up’ stare.
“You don’t want to do that Old Man!” I said in my most threatening seventy-three year old voice.
Banned
Communicating is not about being heard, it’s about being understood so I have to use words that are meaningful to the reader or to my listener. And now they ban words. Who bans words? Well other than Republicans in Florida I mean?
Cst. Tony Peyton
And in we went. If you’ve watched scenes like this unfold on cop shows, guns drawn, furtive glances, the air thick with tension, not knowing what was going to greet them behind the locked hotel room door. It’s just like that! BLAM!
In Defence of Grumpy Old Men
Author’s note: So here’s the thing, I woke up grumpy today. It’s Friday and I always look forward to posting my new blog on Friday’s. When I went to publish, it was no longer there, something as one might imagine that elevated my general grumpiness to Defcon 1.
Just Stop It!
Family, a group united by blood, marriage or other union or through adoption, interacting with one another as spouse, partner, parent, children, siblings growing through each generation.” Definitions and descriptions vary but nowhere does it say you can join a ‘family’ by calling into a radio station.
“This is not my family” I spoke up.Fam
Groping for Trout in a Peculiar River
“So how many men have you slept with?” asked the boyfriend, inevitably stepping into unsafe and private territory. “Ummmm” pondered his girlfriend, weighing the need to be careful in the answer. “None besides you honey. All the others kept me awake all night.”