Freedom From The Mundane

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Today is a special day in our house. It’s my daughter’s birthday—she’s 13 years old! That’s 13 I said; Thirteen; 1 decade and 3! Do I feel like an old fart? Well, yeah, kind of, which is why I’m still baffled about constantly being branded a big kid.
Anyway, we’re off out tonight to celebrate [...]

March 1st, 2010 | Tags: 13, birthday, Canada, Family, GDR's, Goals Dreams and Resolutions, Hockey, Ice Hockey, meal, seasons, spring, teenager, thirteen, USA, Vancouver, winter, Winter Olympics | Category: Family, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Sport, Writing, Writing Process | Comments (3)

Image: Seattle Municipal Archives

It’s definitely getting milder. The wearing of my bunnet is now becoming an unnecessary addition to my daily attire, although we’re not quite at the stage I can safely leave the house with it and risk freezing my napper to the bone. Still, it’s a sign that despite the snow two days [...]

February 5th, 2010 | Tags: Arizona, article re-write, Clark's, Day Job, Editor, Fiction, Freelance, Guinness, I.T., mild, nature, phone call, pint, Scottish accent, Short Stories, spring, Submissions, telephone, USA, Weather, writing competitions | Category: Day Job, Freelance, I.T., Publishing and Marketing, Writing, Writing Process | Comments (1)

Image: Rossina Bossio

Why does the United States continue to welcome terrorists into its fold when they keep telling us they have a zero tolerance policy towards this kind of thing? Newly elected President Obama has shown massive disrespect to all those innocent men and women slain by the terrorist Martin McGuinness, by inviting him to [...]

March 11th, 2009 | Tags: Barack Obama, Britain, e-books, Editing, Fiction, gun lobbyists, guns, IRA, Ireland, Irish republicanism, marketing, Martin McGuinness, private handgun, promotion, Publishing and Marketing, Read an E-Book Week, S. Patrick's Day, shootings, Sinn Fein, Stella, USA | Category: Editorial Comment, Fiction, Poetry, Politics, Publishing and Marketing, UK, Writing Process | Comments (3)

Image: Art es Anna

Day job work is starting to pile up around me. My colleague is on holiday in New Zealand for the best part of three weeks, leaving me to shoulder the responsibility for almost everything day-to-day as well as staying on top of my own project work and keeping tabs on the contractor [...]

January 20th, 2009 | Tags: America, Barack Obama, Bono, British, Day Job, President, Star-Spangled Banner, U2, USA | Category: Day Job, Editorial Comment, Politics, UK | Comments (2)