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Chance Encounter with Ember
It’s kind of strange how I first encountered the books of Ember. Near the end of the school year, I injured myself at the track and field event. I had to go to the hospital and I knew that I would probably be stuck in a waiting room for a while. I didn’t have much…
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Who Loads the Canon?
There seems to be some common consensus that it isn’t just the old and familiar books that can be heralded as classics. For example, Time Magazine rated the top 100 novels of our time and included the excellent graphic novel Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. I wholeheartedly agree that this book needs to…
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My Journal Has Been Reborn
By all rights, my journal should have died. I declared that it did last month and was fine with that decision. But it ultimately refuses to. This blog can’t replace it. I tried to have it do so but I failed. That’s because a journal serves an altogether different purpose. My fictional writing can’t relegate it to…
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Running Passed the Farms
I decided to go for a run out in the boonies. I was visiting a friend up in farm country and he told me of a trail not too far away from his house. So I took my camera, laced up my running shoes, and hit the road. Not all of the streets here have…
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Run-DMC autograph
This is my most prized autograph. It is from all three members of Run-DMC. Reverend Run, Daryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels and the late, great Jam Master Jay. You can see that they autographed the door poster for me. I have it framed with my original ticket in the bottom right hand corner. I wasn’t able to…
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Recommended Reads – The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist is an excellent book that I can’t say enough about. I first discovered it as an audio book when I used to have a long commute to work. There were some amazing passages in it that made me want to pull the car over and jot them down but I didn’t…
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My Beef with Disposable Razor Commercials
I remember when the first razor came out that had three blades and how the television commercials praised this system as an amazing shave. Then four-blade razors came out. And not to be topped, Gillette came out with a five-blade razor that had a sixth precision trimming blade on the edge of it. I got…
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Professional Development Shouldn’t Be So Expensive
I have wanted to upgrade my teaching credentials for some time now. I just haven’t been able to afford to. I still have a large amount of student debt and until that is paid off, I don’t think I should be incurring more. Thankfully, my school had some money available this year to anyone who…
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Tim McGraw Reigns in the Rain
I went to my first country concert this past weekend. I had seen country acts before at free festivals but I had never been to a see a major show before. That changed when Witgirl bought me a ticket to Sarnia Bayfest to see Tim McGraw. I’ve been a fan of his since I first…
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Plagiarizing Myself
I have been taking an online course to upgrade my teaching credentials. Currently I am qualified to teach Kindergarten up to Grade 6. By the time I am done this course, I will be able to teach all the way up to Grade 10. I never planned on teaching high school but I have thought…