Randy | October 15, 2016
“The way Nature sees it, stress is the motivator for an organism to do something to relieve it. If you’re hungry, find something to eat and eat it. Thirsty? Find water. Too cold? Seek warmth. Too hot? Seek shade or some other method of mitigation. Tired? Find a way to get some rest. Sexually aroused? […]
Randy | October 13, 2016
World of Living. World of Dead. A veil that lies between. It bars the Dead from coming back, Except on Hallowe’en. I’m troubled that it’s strong and true A year of days but one, Then weakens with the setting of The last October sun. But all this lies beyond my ken, Or powers to resolve, […]
Randy | October 12, 2016
“From generation to generation, some recipes and cookbooks have become treasured family heirlooms. “The Nova Scotia Archives has scores of them in its personal collections, and has created a digital exhibit featuring hand-written and early printed recipes, some dating as far back at the 1700s.” ~ Hand-written recipes featured in Nova Scotia Archives online exhibit […]
Randy | October 10, 2016
Ed’s Manifesto, which I have previously mentioned only in passing, is the name of a Facebook page associated with other internet outlets ( like this one) belonging to a Mexican Gentleman by the name of Ed Calderón. Ed lives in Mexico City, and until recently was employed by the Mexican government. His job description, to […]
Randy | October 8, 2016
My poem, The Strange Case of the Caller at the Library Window, published here on Day 7 of last year’s Long Winter’s Night, “… is the story of two fellow beings. One, a solitary Man interrupted at his ease by a persistent caller. The other, as it turns out, merely in quest of a last […]
Randy | October 2, 2016
“True Love is the darkest of sentiments both because it has the power to motivate those blessed enough to be possessed by it to the performance of feats that are incomprehensible to the great unwashed, and because, in its truest form, it does not exist to most of the world. In that, it is truly […]
Randy | October 1, 2016
“If you know something, you know something. If you do not know something, it does not exist in your world.” ~ Musashi, What You Don’t Know Whether you’ve spryly hopped the hedge to get here, crawled, or were dragged through it backwards, welcome back, Goode Reader, to this seventh season of Dark Sentiments! Research for […]
Randy | September 30, 2016
The 7th season of our annual Dark Sentiments series begins tomorrow. We love the Autumn, and it evokes such joy in us that Mrs. LFM and I got married on an All Hallows Eve a long lovely time ago. In celebration of all that, and a bunch of other things I could no doubt remember […]
Randy | September 3, 2016
The largest of our Small Fierce Mammals, Viktor, is three years old as of 02:10 Atlantic Daylight Time today. Tall for his age, smart, charming, witty, straight of stance and sound of limb, he’s developed a pattern of behaviour with his female contemporaries that is a wonder to behold. Released into any social setting that […]
Randy | July 26, 2016
As you all know, I don’t mete out death lightly. That being said, there are some affronts that cannot be ignored and being the recipient of an unprovoked attack by a Wasp is one of them. I would also point out that had I come to know the offender was a transient whose home was […]