Dateline: Kitsilano and Kerrisdale, Vancouver I rose for part one of the day at 4:00'ish, made tea, prepped a salad for later and was still around to join at 6 a.m. Zoom meeting for which I had submitted a question. Mine waited between #24 when the Ask Me Anything session stopped with 59 waiting … [Read more...]
A Messy Monday Downtown Entry 3
On Monday, I hoped for a glorious adventure others might have judged as mundane. On my mission, I would have to tolerate possible crowds, fatigue, surprise vertigo and general overall weakness. It would be me, a bus pass, a cellphone back up and the walker with hand brakes and basket I still needed … [Read more...]
Sunday and Uncertainty Entry 2
It's a cold day in Vancouver at 8 C and 46 Fahrenheit but it is walkable in sufficient comfort. I venture out with my cotton mock turtleneck, cotton striped hoodie and fleece vest. New wool socks trap the heat I generate in the runners who have just one more season left to them due to rebuilt old … [Read more...]
‘Just Start’ Can Be The Toughest Part: Entry 1
It's all I can manage for now. Simply writing this confession on the computer screen. Admitting that for a writer who has written a gazillion words for others in numerous styles and tones of voice, it is anxiety-provoking to write my own life stories. They are meant to share my experiences, … [Read more...]
Bayard Rustin Work and Life Recognized …..At Last & Anew
Quick. Name a hero, an architect, a legend of the human rights movement. Here's a hint. He organized the 1963 March on Washington. Bayard Rustin may not instantly come to mind. At The Afro News, forward-thinking publisher, Honore Gbedze and writer, Helena Kaufman knew differently. This post on … [Read more...]
Early Start to Torment with Hallmark’s Christmas Catalogue
It is 64 days to Christmas as I write this late on a Sunday night in the Pacific Northwest. Vancouver, BC to be precise. I begin my anticipatory ruminations of the holiday season ahead, early, in one of the locations where Hallmark shoots the more than 40 Christmas movies it releases each and every … [Read more...]
On This Labour Day Weekend I Am My Own Task Rabbit
This was written in time for the Labour Day weekend. But, maybe you can relate... I didn't hit send. I didn't pull the trigger. I didn't close the loop and publish. I procrastinated. I am a professional writer, a copywriter, a content editor, and a curator of content created by any number of means, … [Read more...]
A Summer’s Tale of Foil and Four Fans
That's what it takes to keep me working in my tiny apartment with southern exposure. All day sun and the heat that comes with it. I worried for months in advance due to the memory of previous summers' heat, acrid air, and pollution. It billowed in from British Columbia's increasingly dangerous, … [Read more...]
Filters In Home & Then Mouth and Mind
Of the 70,000 daily thoughts we have and our brains filter, surely a big percentage that we have on permanent repeat are the ideas of new and improved habits. One has found its way through the filter trap to this page. I'm taking a practical route by starting with a physical filter cleaning to get … [Read more...]
Day 21 Where do you get stalled & what do you do about it?
This is a repost from a 45-day daily personal writing exercise I undertook when I was both invigorated and also challenged by a major home and office move some years ago. Then and now, I still get stalled.. so.. here is the reminder..... My writing has a program supervising my keystrokes. The … [Read more...]
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