Tag Archives: education

Books?

So appar­ently there exists people who are proud of the fact that they don’t read. I have dif­fi­culty under­stand­ing some­thing like this because so much of human cul­ture is tied up in our lit­er­at­ure. There are people who hear the words “Big Brother” and think of a crappy tele­vi­sion show rather than George Orwell’s 1984 AMZN. Reading

It’s aliiiiiive!

I’ll prob­ably write a bit more tomor­row. Today I received a gentle reminder that I like to do this. So this is what I’ll do. Lindsay and I went for a walk today, it was nice. Now that my gout has sub­sided to neg­li­gible levels I can walk without any ser­i­ous pain. I’ve star­ted walk­ing to work. It’s good exer­cise, but not a lot

Thinking about the future.

Some University pamph­lets have star­ted arriv­ing in the mail. The First two are from Capilano University in North Vancouver, and The University Of New Bruswick in St John. Capilano sent me a fairly gen­eric view­book with a small pro­gram guide tucked into the back. U.N.B. sent a small lib­rary in com­par­ison, the pro­gram guide focuses on the fac­ulty

Okay! Writin’ stuff

I have a note­book in my pocket. Ostensibly this is so that if I have a sud­den inspir­a­tion to write, or some ran­dom idea jumps in to my head and I must tell the world about it, I have a place to take notes. I can jot down a bit of an out­line so that the thought or idea doesn’t get lost in

Nothing so verbose today.

I’ve star­ted read­ing a book that my Mother/Sister gave me for a gift-giving-occasion at some time in the past called “Seven Steps on the Writer’s Path: The jour­ney from Frustration to Fulfillment” by Nancy Pickard and Lynn Lott [AMZN] It’s really freak­ing good! I should have read it when I first received it. I’m try­ing to take the les­sons

I wrote this yesterday…

I’m sit­ting in my base­ment behind my drum­set, My snare drum is act­ing as a desk, and my throne, an office chair. It’s a pretty good start I’d say, because I’m finally writ­ing. I’ve always wanted to write, but I guess I’ve never really sat down and done it. That was a fool­ish mis­take on my part. I know that