Being in the Wild: The Original Control/Alt/Delete

Randy | August 27, 2010

I’ve never been one to become bored by my own company. I was quite young when I realized that being alone wasn’t boring, and that to truly know boredom I had to be in the company of other people. For most of my childhood, and all of what has so far passed as my adult [...]

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A Bit More LFM Family History

Randy | July 26, 2010

Mrs. LFM was born in Poland during the Communist regime. She and her family, mother Izabella and father Ryszard, came to Canada by way of Italy in October 1986. Politically, this would be called a defection. On a human level, I’d call it nothing more or less than a family trying to build a better [...]

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She Brought Me Her Worst Born

Randy | July 11, 2010

Once upon a time my business included operation of the dispatch centre that handled calls for the Lunenburg-Mahone Bay Police Service and five Lunenburg County fire departments. A regular event was somebody losing track of their dog, or someone calling in to report that they had a stray in their possession. The logistics of these [...]

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Trot of the Navigator

Randy | June 5, 2010

I once had a Border Collie named Pepper that every Sunday I took to participate in flyball at a school soccer field located about a 35 minute drive from where we lived at the time. The drive involved travelling most of the way on a major highway, then a turn off at a particular exit [...]

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Observations of a Blessed Man

Randy | October 31, 2009

One year ago today, in the glorious autumn of 2008 and on the occasion of the most perfect Hallowe’en ever documented in human history, my perfect Diana and I were married.
People often ask, “Why Hallowe’en?” to which we always answer, “Because some of the most important guests are dead and that’s the only night they [...]

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Moments of Magick

Randy | March 14, 2009

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Many experiences in my life have contributed to my [...]

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Musings as Hallowe’en Approaches - Part the Second

Randy | September 7, 2008

“Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl”
My spectral girl didn’t look like this, but the video is worth a peek on YouTube.

In 1984 I moved into a large house on Lincoln Street in Lunenburg. The layout of the stairway to the second floor prevented me from taking my bedframe up to the master bedroom, so I [...]

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Musings as Hallowe’en Approaches

Randy | September 6, 2008

“Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head ;
Because he knows, a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.”
~ From “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I attended elementary school at Lunenburg Academy, a massive, brooding, castlesque pile [...]

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