My current favourite song is Pray For Me by The Weekend & Kendrick Lamar – Black Panther movie. Love the beat. And it suits me just fine these days. I’m always ready for a war again Go down that road again It’s all the same I’m always ready to take a life again You know I’ll…
Category: Life & Death
You Get What You Give
Sorry Felix, but I love the original version of “You Get What You Give”. New Radicals in 1998. One, two One, two, three Wake up kids We’ve got the dreamers disease Age fourteen we got you down on your knees So polite, you’re busy still saying please Frienemies, who when you’re down ain’t your friend…
MOTHERboard
I hope my son appreciates me. “Mom, the internet is down.” “Working for me. I am watching Netflix.” “My computer won’t connect.” “Try rebooting.” It’s Windows …. “Still won’t. Do we have another ethernet cable?” “Short one. Install your old wireless adapter on your main computer.”(he has 2 gaming computers and a laptop for school)….
My Lucky Day!
I caused my first car crash on a Friday the 13th. I had been working all night and was heading back to the office. Sick with a sinus infection, I sneezed blood all over my dash, and momentarily lost sight of the car in front of me. I rear ended it at the intersection of…
Security
Are you familiar with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? These are the basic needs of humans, teetering on a pyramid. If you don’t have the foundation … these fundamental Physiological needs of air, food, water, shelter, clothing and sleep, you can’t fully realize the next level of needs. They are required for human survival and without…
Why I Write
Exercise 7a: Why I Write… Write a paragraph inspired by famous authors’ essays on why they write. Answer this (simple but very complex) question: Why do you write? Why do I write? I’ve been learning the building blocks of language since early childhood. I learned words, letters and sentences. I don’t recall the exact moment…
Grime
Creative Writing Exercise 6A: Setting & Detail Write a description of the place you called home when you moved out on your own perhaps for the first time—apartment, rented room, dorm, crash pad, etc. As you write your description, don’t just list off the basics. Close your eyes and find this place in your mind—feel…
Look In The Mirror
She laughed as she read his comment, and handed the phone back to her dinner companion. “When he gets his own shit together, then he can call me a coward.” Derek* chuckled and agreed. “It’s amazing who cries the loudest. Those are the cowards who have the most to hide, don’t they?” “Really, they are!”…
Beach Glass
Daily Writing Prompt – 6 Mar 18: Write a scene that involves a bear, a windmill, and a piece of beach glass. The elders had gathered our families around the fire to listen to tonight’s story. We sat, one circle of children inside another circle of adults, to stay warm. Winter’s fierce Wind still…
I made it to 2018
My biggest fear with cancer was to not live long enough to see another snowfall. But I made it to Winter 2018. And wiped snow off my car. Three times in one day! I wasn’t sure I would make it this far when I had this conversation with myself: Stage IV I died in 2017. …
The Christmas Ornament
On Matthew’s 2nd Christmas, I promised him that I would always make the season magical for him. For his first Christmas, the Grinch stole our Christmas Tree. I was so incredibly sad that year, that I didn’t even buy a “Baby’s 1st Christmas” ornament. Over the years, I have thought about kijiji-shopping for something from…
Fox Diaries 