Digital Twilight

(First published on Teeswater.Ca on my birthday – December 12th, 2011) They say when one door closes another opens – nine years ago I had just lost a very important person in my life, followed shortly by a relationship that is HUGELY important to me today. If you follow numerology the world is supposed to ...

(First published on Teeswater.Ca – December 21st, 2011) Christmas is about family and memories. It can be a blissful or bittersweet trip down memory lane. And it can be chance to reflect on the tall tales and larger than life people from your past. This past month a larger than life character left my Army ...

“Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfactions, our ego satisfactions, in consumption.” The economist Victor Lebow wrote these words in a 1955 paper on how to maintain the North American lifestyle. But ...

Bother the Muse! Fickle woman that she is, fills my head with ideas, scenes,images of scenes and images that might be, all in the context of keeping me from doing the work that puts food on the table… I must be having way too much fun. I finally figured how to mate a ‘Windows-only’ Brother ...

Ever feel like you are standing on a corner, with a thousand people – waiting for a bus, that everyone knows will not come, but nobody cares, cuz they have their Timbits – and Starbucks Coffee. Is it just me – or is this country dying, one low fat latte – at a time? Is ...