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🇨🇦 😷Husband, father, grandfather. ✏️Author, ✏️Poet, 🎶 Singer 😷
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Writers write. Each one differently. There is no magic method or daily word count to suit all. There is only one maxim: writers write.

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Otter & Osprey Press, a Canadian publisher, has just released a second edition of my thirteenth novel—The Lonely, Silvery Rain. It's available in print and e-book formats, including Kindle.

This safe link will direct you to your preferred online retailer---https://geni.us/thelonelysilveryrain
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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All’s well that ends well…..

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Speaking Shakespeare
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September 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Believe in something, or…

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What to Believe?
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September 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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across the water,
singing; bouncing o’er the waves
to our waiting ears

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August 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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my father, a man
I seem to have become now---
I hope he’d be pleased

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August 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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though you’ve grown old and
frail, I still see your awesome
strength and purity

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August 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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the child is father
of the man, as wordsworth wrote---
so nurture the child

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August 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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we’re never so tall
as when we bend down to help
a child who needs us

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August 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Another milestone…..

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More and More Every Day
Earlier this week, I celebrated my wedding anniversary—fifty-eight years, all married to the same woman, the lissome lass I first dated when she was but sixteen.  We married four years l…
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August 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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it’s said no good deed
goes unpunished, but I think
that most of them do

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August 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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to free your children,
hug them close, then let them go---
they’ll e’er be with you

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August 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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more yesterdays now
than tomorrows, but it’s the
tomorrows that count

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August 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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it’s essential that
we stand for something, lest we
fall for anything

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August 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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regrets? some, maybe---
but I can’t go back to change
the pathways I’ve trod

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August 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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he’s lying awake,
remembering all the things
he’d like to forget

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August 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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diamond-clad elves
dancing quite dementedly---
sunlight on the lake

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August 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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north of forty-nine
we speak the King’s English, eh?
and it’s zed, not zee

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August 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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asleep together,
intertwined, we bind our souls
with each breath we take

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August 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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dancing in the rain,
neither of us wet or cold---
warmly wrapped in love

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August 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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This ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
hmallick.bsky.social Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · Aug 11
A Trump nation that executes prisoners, lets pregnant women die rather than allow them abortions, refuses medical care for the poor, and values guns more than lives is not well-placed to lecture Canada on offering assisted dying for terminally ill people in agony.
August 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Wildfire-smoke sunrise over Lake Ontario
August 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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imagination---
like hot air balloons, slipping
bonds that tie me down

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August 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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grandchildren, our hope
for the future---as we were
once upon a time

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August 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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when we first began,
I was not worthy of you---
yet, you offered love

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August 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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most syl-la-bles start
with a con-so-nant and have
a clear vow-el sound

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August 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM