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Designs I Like

2017 Wall Calendars

August 14, 2016

The demand for printed wall calendars has fallen too low to justify the time to revise files each year.

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Reminder of Days Gone By

July 17, 2015

As regular readers are aware, I am a big fan of Sean Martin; creator of Doc & Raider, The Littlest Blog and his other work. Fans of D&R know that current strips and panels are digital- computer generated. Last century D&R was hand-drawn and Sean [read more]

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Slut

April 4, 2015

As long as I can remember I have defined a slut as “someone who has more sex than the person using the term,” because that’s how the word seems to be used. The traditional definition (as in, Merriam-Webster online) applies only to females- and uses [read more]

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Groundhog Day Again

February 2, 2015

(First posted four years ago; still applicable) One of the reasons I decided to leave Toronto 19 years ago was the overwhelming sense of loss I felt. The first ‘real’ relationship had ended, the job I thought would be my career was gone, and I [read more]

Poetry

Book Review: The Road Home

April 28, 2014

I offered to read and review The Road Home: A poet’s journey through AIDS by Harry F. Rey because he asked, and because I want to encourage new poets to publish; paper, eBook or web-site. As an aside, with the much talked about shortened attention [read more]

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Everything Happens For a Reason

December 1, 2013

I’ve heard this expression for years, but it seems to have become quite popular (or at least, frequently-used) over the past few years. It is even the conclusion in the opening sequence for Drop Dead Diva. In the purely rational, scientific, sense it is totally [read more]