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Love List: Thanksgiving
I love waking up in a fort. Built by nephews on tippy-toes, on early, early mornings before the sun’s even awake. I love spray-painted woodland creatures… …tree trunks that look just like front paws… …double-parked geese who wait patiently for me to find and zoom my camera phone that’s never in either one of my […]
Forty-Three (I Wanna Pole You)
June 4, 2014
It’s not a compliment. If you’re at a southern, South Korean bar and a guy comes up to you, saying that, to your face. It’s Busan. It’s a tight-knit ex-pat community down there, but still. It’s definitely not nice. It’s embarrassing if you’re there in a group of teachers from work. If that Irish colleague […]
Exes
April 30, 2014
There’s a slaughterhouse smell that used to remind me of an ex. It was his dream job. Like a pig in shit sat behind a mid-level desk at a pork factory that stunk up King and Bathurst, not far from the downtown harbourfront. He’d wear a lot of cologne, we’d walk down after work and […]
Shirley
January 28, 2014
RUSS Mary’s boyfriend and not Tim’s father MARY my hospital roommate SHIRLEY Mary’s sister TIM Mary’s son THE LAST ACT Same jokers from yesterday. Originally from Halifax, only going down home for Christmas if Mary’s discharged in time. Looks like she’s gonna make it! Russ: Shirley says she’s gonna call. Mary: Well, there’s […]
“KLM and sometimes Y”
January 14, 2014
I met “MY” matches for close to a full revolution around the sun at Fluid. A nightclub that was hot in the late 90s. I’d had all those credit cards they give you your first year of university and would max out at least one at this place at least once a month. I’d see […]
Elephant Stampede Eve
January 8, 2014
It’s better when you picture them as a happy parade. That’s what I won’t forget to tell my dad before he goes under. Because they are, a group of elephants is called a parade. I know this for a fact because I Googled it and got this reliably sourced information from Ask.com. And how are […]
Caricature
January 7, 2014
The last few minutes of the last ESL debate class I taught in Busan. Do you have a Korean name? No. Give me one before I go. You guys have English names, so… You wear a lot of black clothes. Yes. Your pearl earrings, they are black too. It is good for brown eyes and […]
Yewon
January 3, 2014
A darling child. PS – I’m folding that box of Banc t-shirts fresh out of the dryer. […] Still wear those shirts and think of some of the happier times during that impossible season our lives. Good grief! Anyway, that’s one of the ways I know this sh*t storm will pass too. 😉 And bright […]
Feathers make the blog, Mark Twain!
Hyperactive Inefficiency 
October 9, 2014
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