by csweet | Jan 27, 2018 | Blog Archive, Uncategorized
Last Tuesday night, while I was at Mt. Sinai hospital, Peter texted me that Ursula K. Le Guin had died. I was at the hospital with my friend Megan, who was in labour with a boy she’d already named Monty. Her mother was there too, exhausted from a trip down from...
by csweet | Nov 6, 2017 | Blog Archive
Part I of this story can be found here. October 22, 2017 “Life is complex. Your next night in doesn’t have to be,” proclaims the Miss Vickie’s ad in the middle of my Facebook feed (because I haven’t bothered to install Ad Blocker). Kevin is still in...
by csweet | Sep 4, 2017 | Blog Archive, News, Uncategorized
Emma says, “This is my third-last night here before I go.” We walk to Staples and buy bankers boxes. She sifts through her own baby pictures and finds some to pack. I don’t cry, when I look at the photos, but I do feel gutted. That plump baby with the fuzzy...
by csweet | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog Archive, News, Uncategorized
I have no idea what I was thinking. What the hell was I thinking? I was 50,000 words in, then. I’ve since written about 26,000 more. Not bad, right? Not bad for someone who usually requires years, not months, to get into the tens of thousands of words. Except...
by csweet | Dec 24, 2016 | Blog Archive
Funny, how intense is the nostalgia generated by Decembers and epic franchise movies. Lord of the Rings, for example: Whenever I watch the first installment of the trilogy now, and catch that opening glimpse of Frodo in Peter Jackson’s Shire, I remember my...
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