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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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  • Personal Essay

Is one of these your perfect journal?

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

Yes, it’s true: I have a lot of blank books DOZENS OF THEM, tucked away…

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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

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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  • Humor

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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  • Humor

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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  • Humor

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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  • Wayne's Picks

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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  • Humor

5 tell-tale warning signs that you may be a writer

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

Warning: you may be a writer! WHAT IS A WRITER? The screen shot above has…

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  • Humor

This was my brain on 70s songs

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 27, 2014December 27, 2014

TO ME, the 1970s was the decade of memorable music. When I look back, I…

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  • Humor

Are you amazing and full of life? Well here is how you know.

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 26, 2014January 2, 2015

A WISE MAN once said that a cluttered desk is the sign of a brilliant,…

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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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