Update: June 11th, 2020 Rain Wear on a Windy Day Patient; ready; listening: That did describe the state of affairs in my corner of the world in the heady days of late winter/early spring. The novelty of those days was in its odd way bracing and compelling and utterly captivating. The apparent fact of each of...

This is from the invocation that has kicked off every Night of Grief and Mystery that Gregory Hoskins and I have done over the last few years. Seems to fit these days and nights, too. Recorded my part here at the house. Hoskins did his stuff at the studio in Guelph. https://youtu.be/3YSnYUGKHfI

Let’s say you’re in lock down, because you were ‘exposed’. Or maybe it's because your boredom has succumbed to your concern for the common good. So, whaddya mean, “Let’s say you’re in lock down”? No, no. You’re in lock down. You’re looking out the window, at the sight of nothing new. No? Then that’s the...

I've been asked hundreds of times to sign personal copies of Come of Age, and I'm glad to do it. More than glad. I see to it that each inscription is very close to prayer, outright. Not always a prayer for something, mind you. Rarely that. Just as often it is a prayer to...