I’m still not used to the idea that when I post a picture, it goes to the pages of all my 2220 some ‘friends.’ It seems very odd. But then, when I went to bed last night, I had 2292 friends. “Ah,” I thought, “tomorrow I’ll be up to 2300.
This morning [...]

Started adding neighbours today after one of them friended me. Without asking, it is hard to know who might be on Facebook. Except for the writers and artists, who have work, books and readings to promote, most individuals have around 10 to 50 friends, nearly all relatives or someone they knew in highschool.
Went [...]

 
Note- This was about 2 years ago. I am presently bagless but still very much amused and laugh when I think of how it went:
The funniest thing that ever happened to me, to date, turned out to be something no one wanted to talk about.  I had absolutely no idea what the solution to a [...]

I couldn’t believe my luck when I woke up recently from emergency surgery for an intestinal obstruction. There, on my stomach, like a good conduct medal, was a discreet little sort of sandwich bag, which, for the foreseeable future, would be externally collecting my poop.
            Oblong, rounded at the corners and rather loosely secured by [...]

When I woke up this morning about 4:30, I was repeating a dream I’d just had. I went ahead and polished up what it was I was working on, repeating it to whoever I swam with down at the pool. This piece is the result:
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(Unless you want to end up with a generic one-size-fits-all, pay [...]

     Dick was reading Scott Symons obituary to me this morning while my hands were plunged deep into peanut butter cookie dough. I had just finished resupplying the misplaced lyrics to a granny song online, to which new lyrics had been written, trying to smooth over the old & the new, both coming from vigorous [...]

I never have a rock without a roll
Tunes just chew and swallow me up whole
And so I play them not, a silent soul
Sitting while the quiet takes its toll
On my gnarly knotted music shhing knoll
Science has proved that everything in nature has a voice, a distinct sound of its own, it actually speaks if we [...]

I have always bitten off little chunks of my life, like pieces of thread and sold them to whatever journal, magazine or anthology was handy at the time. Some have been songs. On these pages I’m going to try and get some of them together as well as promote the latest work. Currently it is [...]