I know, it may be ‘cheesy’ to do a spin on Shakespeare’s ‘to be or not to be.’ But it makes the title more appealing than ‘Language Used at Work, at Home, and Everywhere Else‘ (my original title). My personal history with ‘swear’ words is pretty conservative. When our son was in his mid to…
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On ‘Just because I could . . .’
Postscript (February 2026) For the backstory on my comments below, first read “Just because I could . . . a thing called ‘Power’.” In May 2025, a town hall meeting was called in protest to the sudden ban of all boats on the lake. The Park Superintendent who made that fateful decision was brave enough…
‘Almost there . . .’
It was a 5 kilometre community run for a cancer charity. I had just started distance running (at age 55) and was testing my speed intervals in preparation for an upcoming longer run. Approaching the last kilometre, I overtook a young man who was slightly swaying from side to side at a slow pace. I…
I started writing poetry today
I needed some place to put the sadness. The Lady in Blue I didn’t want to be forward.She should have been beautiful – blond, young, slim, poised.But disturbed.Here we were in our little room with two open ends.She, me, an elderly man pursing his lips and blinking his eyes.Waiting to be called to see the…
On ‘I started writing poetry today’
I took a risk putting that poem ‘out there.’ What impressions would I be giving of “Just who do I think I am anyway?” Be assured that I do not consider myself a poet. I was going to add some context before or after the poem. To say that I did not remember when I…
“Just because I could” – a thing called ‘Power’
Backstory: As expressed in A Start . . . A Fresh Start . . . and then, A New Fresh Start, I did the piece below during my one day of writing in May 2025. Now, in January 2026, I have reworked it somewhat but still let it speak from the context of that day…
A Start, A Fresh Start, and then, A New Fresh Start!
A Start – April to May 2024 I launched the Miles 2 Go website blog in April 2024 and posted my last item that year on May 15, 2024. A 6-week flurry of activity that felt so good. I was diving into something that was one of my life goals. A year earlier, in June…
I Need Your Tears
I have a friend. Actually, two of them. They have both ‘been there’ for me. Even through the years when I didn’t deserve to have a friend. I was too busy. Too much into my own agenda of life. Too self-contained, not even aware of how barren I was. They are very different but equally…
Are We There Yet?
TIME. Is there anything more variable in our experience of life? As a child in the family car, heading to see Grandma (we called her Baba), it passed so excruciatingly sloooow. Now, at 76, I simply don’t know where the past 25 years have gone. It seems like only yesterday that my wife and I…
Of Time and Turtles
*Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell* This book brings back memories. My Dad had a pet guinea pig he named Toodie. I don’t know where that name came from as Dad didn’t talk much about all the stuff he was thinking about. Toodie lived freely in our house, leaving compact little turd pellets anywhere…