Instead, I focus on stuff I can either affect or enjoy, like loved ones and art and baseball and books and freedom and films and music. As worrying over things beyond my control amounts to vanity, which serves no good purpose.
Go ahead, call me selfish. I won’t argue the point.
Hello and welcome, reader. As ever, it’s my pleasure to have you join me. The thing is, the older I get, the more I believe in practice. I’m not sure why, but it could result from spending my younger days in a booze and drug addled haze. You know, the pain of regret, lost youth, […]
Hello and welcome, reader. As ever, it’s my pleasure to have you join me here. For here, as best I can manage it, respect and tolerance govern the ideas shared between us, whatever our differences. I further limit these missives to career news, aspects of the craft, and what passes for humour in these parts. […]
Hello and welcome, reader. As ever, it’s my pleasure to have you join me. This month, instead of sharing a narrative work with you, I’ve returned to the essay format. For the students or writers in the crowd, limiting the use of adverbs and adjectives improves the clarity and reading ease of prose while favoring […]
I’ll give you three guesses…
Hello and welcome, reader. It’s good to be here, and thanks for showing up. Were I that way, my excuse for blowing the monthly schedule after only five of them is that February was a short one. Either that or finishing third draft revisions to my latest manuscript kept me too busy to drop you […]
November 12, 2023 Thorsby, AB Hello and welcome, reader. I’m grateful you’re here and want you to know it. For me, that’s a big deal. Because, sadly, I’ve often been told I can be a selfish jerk in private life. And that such behavior sometimes intrudes upon my public one, as well. My claim, of […]
October 21, 2023 Thorsby, Alberta Hello and welcome reader. By now, I’ve had a long career in the arts. And throughout it, I’ve mostly let my work speak for itself. Aside from admitting I was wrong-headed, there’s no changing that now. Mea culpa. The results, of course, are clear. I mean, how many times have […]
September 14, 2023 Thorsby, AB Hello and welcome, reader. I hope you’re enjoying the new website. My swanky new online home is a work-in-progress, and I look forward to your reviews. The plan is to use this page to carry on the now-and-then habit of posting random thoughts, news, and the usual detritus filling the […]
