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Category: Humor

Humorous essays for everyday life, by Wayne K. Spear

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The Cree should have a flip-chart easel ceremony. No, just kidding.

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 27, 2015February 27, 2015

THERE’S AN EASY WAY to tell you’ve been spending too much time with the Cree,…

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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, updated for the 21st century

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 23, 2015February 23, 2015

Photo by Jezz, “Winter Traffic” on Flickr.   I WAS IN WINNIPEG, Manitoba last week,…

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Dear Mr. God, It’s Me Charlie

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 8, 2015January 28, 2015

In many places around this world, I would be killed just for posting this dumb…

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Some tips for keeping warm in interstellar space. I mean, Canada.

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 7, 2015January 28, 2015

IF YOU LIVE in Canada, or northern USA, you know how nasty Winter can be.…

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Make anything funny with this one simple trick

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 6, 2015January 6, 2015

LAST MONTH my family went on a mission. It was my son’s idea, and it…

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Some tips on how to make effective New Year’s resolutions

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 30, 2014January 2, 2017

THE OXFORD English Dictionary says that resolution comes from a Latin word, resolvĕre, meaning “to…

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This new model of the universe requires no math and goes great with Jägermeister

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 29, 2014January 2, 2015

I DON’T RECALL who first said that time is an illusion: it could have been…

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I am fighting the war for freedom on eBay

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 27, 2014January 2, 2015

YEARS AGO, I bought the 1929 Elgin art deco watch pictured above. Recently the crystal…

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How my HAPPINESS CRYSTAL will destroy the business of making people unhappy

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 23, 2014January 2, 2015

A FEW YEARS AGO a fictional person I’ll call Max discovered video games. He loved…

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The legendary feats of John Wick, assassin—continued

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 22, 2014January 2, 2015

AN EX-HITMAN [Keanu Reeves] comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took…

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This is an offensive aboriginal stereotype, even if it does describe me perfectly

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 21, 2014January 2, 2015

I‘M SURE you’ve all seen it: the offensive “Native” stereotype of the guy who has…

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Some men’s vintage haircuts considered

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 16, 2014March 23, 2015

DEPRESSION, war and totalitarianism. Who doesn’t get nostalgic thinking about the 1920s, 30s and 40s?…

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Running explained

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 15, 2014January 2, 2015

RUNNING WAS INVENTED 4,600,000 years ago by our human ancestors, Australopithecus. In the 34th Century…

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How my school days prepared me for a world which doesn’t exist, and didn’t prepare me for the one that does

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 13, 2014January 2, 2015

SCHOOL DAYS. They were so long ago, you probably don’t remember them. Or maybe what…

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My Grade 11 English Teacher, Mrs. Joyce, Marks Christmas Carols

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 8, 2014January 2, 2015

Jingle Bells Obviously the bells jingle: that’s what they are made to do. Try “bells,…

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Wayne K. Spear has been a writer for over thirty years. His work has appeared in the National Post, Huffington Post, CBC, Ottawa Citizen, and elsewhere. He was a weekly CTV News panelist and currently hosts The Roundtable Podcast.

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Winner of the 2016 Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award and finalist of the 2015 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.

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