Thursday Aug 8

F. is sick (F. fell ill). Illness struck F. F caught something, a cold. F. stumbled into another sickness. A cold shivered…

Aug 7/2019

When I do a sport, I obsess over the minutia. All my thought leads back to it, in this case kickboxing. If…

Aug 6/2019

A list of writing projects underway or which I want to undertake:

Kingsway Massage – short storyCollection of Memories – essaysDying girl -…

Aug 1/2019

The city doesn’t bother me, b/c so many layers of thought and feeling insulate me, felted layers that only a certain, insistent…

Aug 2 2019

The city’s landscape, natural and constructed, leaves me dead. Is inert a better word? Has familiarity accustomed my eyes? When I travel,…

Spectacle Lake June 29

We drove to Spectacle Lake this morning. I saw it on the Victoria subreddit. Twenty minutes north on the Trans Canada, left…

Garry Oak

I maintain a mental Rolodex of trees. I’ve found most of them driving. These days, I no longer have the time to…

Aug 5/2019

“Was that fun”, my daughter asked?

“Did you have fun?”

“Yes.”

We stared, and finally I said, “Good” with the punctuating mark used by parents…

Aug 4/2019 – Sunday

NOTE: I made two entries for August 4th. I believe the one previous to this entry was mislabeled.

Took me this long to…

Aug 4/2019

I’ve nearly filled these 3 small journals. They weren’t cheap. I should buy larger, practical, ring-board notebooks. Their size puts me off…