Middle Age

My Friend Dave Sage

I met Dave at my first job at a company called Dataline in 1979, a company I talk about in detail in my second book, How I Invented the Internet. I was in possession of a master’s degree in library science (ink barely dry), hired to be the systems librarian at the computer timesharing company that was at the forefront …

Houses

Cottage Status Report 20250608

Last night, I heard my owl for the first time this season. I’m not sure if it’s a girl or a boy, or even if it’s the same owl from ...
Houses

Cottage Status Report 20250510

The hummingbirds are back, complete with their asshole behaviour, dive-bombing each other to get to the feeder even though there is more than enough to go around. The day after ...
Houses

Suburban Status Report 20250330

Today, I unearthed (un-snowed?) my Globe and Mail newspaper from February 7. I wasn’t completely sure what had happened to it at the time, but suspected it had been plowed ...
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The next instalment of my memoir, If It’s Shreveport, It Must Be Tuesday, will be published in 2025.

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