Weird stuff is happening to me. I’m exploring alternative lifestyles, with my wife’s permission. My hands are red. Art. I’m twisting things. Painting plywood sheets, and making pendant light fixtures out of 12 gauge wire to hang in the trees at the cabin. I’m emulating Rothko, and am trying desperately to come up with unique [...]
Wordy New Year
January 6th, 2013 by stuart 1 comment »Happy New Year. I want to get more down. Not exactly on paper, though that is more satisfying somehow. Every now and then I dust off out one of the old Underwoods I have collected in nostalgia thinly veiled as prep for the zombie apocalypse. I prop it up on the desk, blacken my fingers [...]
Ten simple ways to make PEI a happier place.
July 11th, 2012 by stuart 2 comments »1) Restore a constitutional right! Free passage across Confederation Bridge for Islanders. It seems unfair to make people who live here pay to leave. 2) Less breading, more lightly grilled with lemon or, Sushi! 3) Let go of the ride-on. Stop cutting the ditch. It’s tippy, dangerous, polluting and, frankly, an offense to lupin lovers [...]
Reflections on sleep & sleeping with …
July 2nd, 2012 by stuart No comments »A good friend lost his pillow last week on a business trip. He can’t sleep without it, and now he has to wait four to six weeks for a special-order replacement to arrive from the US. He’s beat, edgy and ashen. This scares me. I used to be able to sleep anywhere – that is, [...]
Letter from Syria. Radio silence from Canada.
June 26th, 2012 by stuart 2 comments »As the town receded into the distance, I thought: Well, at least if I’m being driven into the desert to be raped and killed, this was beautiful. It’s lonely at the border of Syria and Iraq when you’re a 20-something English-speaking foreigner. Deir Ez-zor is about as far as you can get from anything in [...]
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