Posted: October 1st, 2008
Got a few minutes? This is Barack Obama speaking in Reno Nevada the day after the ‘Wall Street’ bailout was rejected and the stock market plummeted.
UPDATE: And This is New Yorker Magazine’s endorsement – an extremely comprehensive overview.
Posted: September 26th, 2008
Just in case there’s a google-bot sweeping the internets for references to Barack Obama and the presidential debate, I believe that Barack Obama clearly won tonight. I wish I could vote for him.
Posted: September 26th, 2008
I am honored to watch two very intelligent and wise people face off against each other in public. It’s the most fun I’ve had in a long time. I am extremely proud of the candidate that I support.
Posted: September 8th, 2008
“I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.”
~ Sarah Palin
Posted: August 19th, 2008
“Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.”
Posted: August 2nd, 2008
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Posted: February 26th, 2008
“Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the think of it, as in the feel of it.”
Posted: February 26th, 2008
I started writing online in 1996. Those initial years helped to get my confidence up.
The next installment of my online adventure led me into the 2000’s and eventually attracted the interest of a real-world brick and mortar publisher who ultimately helped me create and release the book I’d often dreamed of but never for a moment expected.
What followed was an exciting but often overwhelming concentration of attention on me and my personal life that has only just lately died down. Marginally shaken, I have nonetheless continued writing online – but the spectre of an imagined second book appears to have squatted unceremoniously on my weakling creative impulse and choked its out-take valve.
A change is in order – but I don’t know what to do next. Evolution is important to me. If I work at this unselfconsciously I think it can become something of value, but I need to flail for a while in hopes that a clear path will reveal itself. Whatever I do should be different in some, as yet undefined, way.
So, valued readers, take this as a warning. And … wish me luck.
Posted from Saskatoon, SK
Posted: August 13th, 2006
The house isn’t large, and it’s old enough that the odd leak or dent is not a pressing issue. It’s comfortable. There are dahlias. You can walk from the covered porch down to the water. There is wireless signal on the beach. There’s an Airstream in the yard.
Posted from Arnprior, Ontario
Posted: August 11th, 2006
I don’t want the responsibility or the expense of an Airstream. I don’t want to learn how to back one into a campsite, or have to perform regular trailer maintenance, or be the guy holding up a two mile line of traffic on the highway. I would just like for Debbie and me to wake up together in our own place and be the only ones in the world who know for sure where we are.
They’re unreasonably expensive and it’s not like we need the Rolls Royce of trailers, but I think it has to be an Airstream. It’s a romantic notion that’s worked its way deep into my mythology. I’d like to “fix it up”, whatever that means.
There’s nowhere in particular I’d like to take it. Lord knows I’ve traveled enough and seen enough. I think a WalMart parking lot would be fine – or someone’s back yard. I’d want the retractable awning. Here’s the picture:
It’s raining but warm. We’ve got the awning deployed and we’re sitting under it in folding chairs. We’ve just returned from a long walk and beat the rain. Maybe we have Coronas. We’re watching the WalMart shoppers going to and from their cars and we’re discussing their purchases.
