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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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  • Personal Essay

Yes, it’s true. I have a new website.

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 15, 2015

I wasn’t going to announce this until it was official, but what the heck. I…

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  • Writers and Writing

I’m tired of being a crappy blogger, and here’s what I’m doing about it

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 11, 2015January 28, 2015

If you are a blogger, the odds are you have been going through the same…

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  • Humor

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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  • Humor

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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  • Personal Essay

11 teeny-tiny, totally do-able things that are great for your life

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 5, 2015January 5, 2015

WHAT IF I SAID you can change your life for the better, and that all…

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  • Current Events

Twelve things Millennials have amazingly never experienced

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 3, 2015January 3, 2020

Show a Millennial a 20-D printer that can make a functioning human liver out of silicone pellets, and they’ll say “That’s awesome”— which is what they say about a new craft beer or the latest Drake song. What does blow the minds of Millennials is when you tell them that you saw the Rolling Stones in the 1970s for five dollars.

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  • Writers and Writing

Dear Mister Captain—please let me on the life boat

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

NOTE—This piece is based on a writing assignment in the book 642 Things to Write…

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  • Humor

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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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

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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  • Writers and Writing

Reasons you should start a blog. And me destroying them.

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 5, 2014January 2, 2015

I GOT CURIOUS about my odds. The biggest lottery in Canada? I have about a…

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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

The ghost writer of Christmases past

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

DECEMBER 1st has arrived, and here at the ranch that means it’s time to light…

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  • Humor

1/2 of self-published authors earn under $500: I’ve figured out how not to be one of them

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 1, 2014July 4, 2021

WELCOME to Christmas, the time of year when people dress up like serious adults, to…

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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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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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