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Clean up your mess

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 31, 2015October 9, 2015

Good messes vs. bad messes. ✎ By Wayne K. Spear Photo courtesy of udge, on…

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This is the meaning of your life

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 30, 2015October 9, 2015

When you die, the people who loved you unearth your significance. ✎ By Wayne K.…

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  • Business

Don’t go it alone

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 27, 2015October 9, 2015

It takes a village to rock. ✎ By Wayne K. Spear This is a story…

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  • Business

Pie versus Sunshine

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 26, 2015October 9, 2015

Be open, bold, & generous. ✎ By Wayne K. Spear Imagine a company that sells…

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Simple, not simplistic

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 25, 2015October 9, 2015

We need more simple people. ✎ By Wayne K. Spear The best ideas are simple,…

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What I’ve learned by looking at trees

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 29, 2015June 15, 2018

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED, as I did recently, what determines the seemingly random pattern of…

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  • Personal Essay

Uncle Al

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 9, 2015March 9, 2020

HE WAS, quite simply, one of the most remarkable people I’ve ever known.

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An open letter to Stephen King

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 9, 2014January 2, 2015

I‘VE JUST FINISHED On Writing. It’s been years since I’ve read one of your books,…

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  • Humor

5 common mistakes made by writers

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 3, 2014October 23, 2016

IF YOU READ this little website of mine, you probably know I’m a fan of…

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  • Humor

How Hard Could It Be to Have a Billion Twitter Followers?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 4, 2014January 2, 2015

OKAY, first of all. So I joined the Twitter around February, nine months ago. That…

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Death and Language

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 17, 2014January 2, 2015

AN EDITOR ASKED ME not long ago if I might change the word “died” to…

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Above All Else, Keep Failing

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 12, 2014January 2, 2015

WHEN I LOOK over my life, I see failures. You’ve heard the sayings: “success consists…

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Your Writing is Not Like a Barry Manilow Song

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 3, 2014January 2, 2015

AT DINNER, my good friend Adrian M. Kelly (author of Down Sterling Road, which can…

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The Case for Olympic Writing

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

I ASK MYSELF: if writing were an Olympic sport, who would be its 2014 gold…

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A Pleasure to Meet You, Ideal Reader

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 20, 2014January 2, 2015

I WAS ASKED the other day who I imagined my ideal reader to be. “Well,”…

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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.

✍ wayne.k.spear@gmail.com

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Residential Schools, With the Words and Images of Survivors, A National History — winner of the Golden Oak Award and finalist of the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. Rated 4.25/5 on Goodreads!

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