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

By Wayne K. Spear on February 27, 2015 • ( 0 )

THERE’S AN EASY WAY to tell you’ve been spending too much time with the Cree, and it’s this: When you find yourself saying, “No, just kidding” every time you are just kidding. As in, “Three guys walk into a bar…. Read More ›

Yes, it’s true. I have a new website.

By Wayne K. Spear on February 15, 2015 • ( 2 )

I wasn’t going to announce this until it was official, but what the heck. I have a new business-oriented website. There. Now it’s out. Actually, this has been some time in the making. You see, I’ve been thinking a lot… Read More ›

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

By Wayne K. Spear on January 11, 2015 • ( 8 )

If you are a blogger, the odds are you have been going through the same experience as me. If that’s the case, keep reading. There is good news and hope at the end IF YOU’RE A REGULAR VISITOR, you’ll have… Read More ›

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

By Wayne K. Spear on January 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

IF YOU LIVE in Canada, or northern USA, you know how nasty Winter can be. Also, if you live on the moon or in interstellar space, where I hear it gets almost as cold as Winnipeg. Like me, every Winter… Read More ›

Make anything funny with this one simple trick

By Wayne K. Spear on January 6, 2015 • ( 2 )

LAST MONTH my family went on a mission. It was my son’s idea, and it went like this: from a hat each one of us picked the name of a family member and went to the local department store with… Read More ›

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

By Wayne K. Spear on January 5, 2015 • ( 0 )

WHAT IF I SAID you can change your life for the better, and that all you’ll need is a gazillion dollars, a whackload of planning, and years of back-breaking effort? “That’s not very helpful or surprising,” you’d say. Most of… Read More ›

Twelve things Millennials have amazingly never experienced

By Wayne K. Spear on January 3, 2015 • ( 0 )

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.

Dear Mister Captain—please let me on the life boat

By Wayne K. Spear on January 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

NOTE—This piece is based on a writing assignment in the book 642 Things to Write About, published by the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto: “Only ten people will fit in the life raft. Convince the Captain that you should be one… Read More ›

Some men’s vintage haircuts considered

By Wayne K. Spear on December 16, 2014 • ( 0 )

DEPRESSION, war and totalitarianism. Who doesn’t get nostalgic thinking about the 1920s, 30s and 40s? No one, is who! Perhaps that’s why the old-timey barbershop has returned, and with it the hairstyles of the early-to-mid 20th Century.

An open letter to Stephen King

By Wayne K. Spear on December 9, 2014 • ( 0 )

I‘VE JUST FINISHED On Writing. It’s been years since I’ve read one of your books, and I enjoyed this one enough that I’ll be reading another soon. We have some things in common. Like you, I started a satirical magazine… Read More ›

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

By Wayne K. Spear on December 8, 2014 • ( 0 )

Jingle Bells Obviously the bells jingle: that’s what they are made to do. Try “bells, bells all the way.” (See Strunk and White, “Omit needless words.”) Also, does the protagonist have some sort of objection to a multi-horse and/or closed… Read More ›

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