Madness. Yes, we are about to embark on a month of madness. And more than anything else now, Meg and I could really use a few days of downtime – days without work and union responsibilities and meetings and travel and all the little tasks that consume each day.
Meg’s just back from Ottawa, where a [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Workaday Life
Posted in Family, Relationships, tagged Personal on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Red November, Black November
Posted in Labour and Unions, Political Stuff, tagged History, IWW, Labour and Unions, Resistance, Working Class on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As we near the end of November, Meg is returning from the bargaining table, and I am about to take off for union meetings in Ottawa, with a fresh tattoo on my arm of the IWW sabocat – symbol of the wildcat strike and industrial sabotage.
I won’t write much myself today, but instead want to [...]
Plain Poetry, Frogs and Wartime
Posted in Misc., Reading and Writing, tagged Central America, Poetry, Reading and Writing on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The other day, Meg wrote a post about poetry and story-telling which was inspired by a commentary she had read – and read to me – that suggested poets have too much abandoned stories for word-play, making them increasingly inaccessible and irrelevant to all but a small segment of the population.
Now, I confess. I am [...]
The Poetry Ritual
Posted in Reading and Writing, Relationships, tagged Poetry, Reading and Writing on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For the last several weeks now, Meg and I have had a new ritual. Each night before sleep, we read a few poems to each other, alternating responsibility for the reading and the appreciating. We’ve shared favourites, we’ve re-discovered old volumes on the bookshelf, we’ve sought out or stumbled upon voices that are new or [...]
Good Things
Posted in Misc., tagged Personal on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Been feeling pretty overwhelmed the last while. Not bad, per se, but unstable, like there’s so much changing and so many unknowns that it’s hard to really feel settled.
Housing questions, with the market such as it is and Meg and I planning a move-in sometime in the not-too-distant future. Parenting questions, with this family being [...]
After the Wait
Posted in Misc., Relationships, tagged Personal on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well. It’s about fucking time.
The US system finally got around to releasing Meg’s ex. So we’re chilling out last night , Meg working on some crafty stuff, me dozing on the couch somewhat out of sorts when a 9:00 phone call rouses us both. Darren’s at the airport, home in just a few minutes.
Wow. Weren’t [...]
November Days
Posted in Misc., tagged Personal on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fuck it’s been hard keeping this blog up lately. Between daytime breaks devoted now to the gym and free evening hours to a holiday project, I’ve done absolutely nothing for quite some time, and have had a few people on my ass about that lately.
Well, in an effort to find fresh ways to disappoint, here’s a post, [...]
