October 2006

It’s so easy to slip

by Bill Wren on October 25, 2006

It’s so easy to slip, It’s so easy to fall … – Little Feat – When things are going really well you’ve got to be careful. Something may be lying in wait to trip you up. I decided to move east. I resigned from my job. I sold my condo. Plans were coming together and [...]

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The virtue of tenacity

by Bill Wren on October 22, 2006

One of my favourite words is tenacity. My dictionary defines it this way: “not readily letting go of, giving up, or separated from an object that one holds, a position, or a principle” I’m thinking about tenacity now having reread Bree’s post Rules for effective political letter-writing. To her list I would add, “be tenacious.” [...]

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Heading east: the story so far

by Bill Wren on October 18, 2006

The following is actually made up of two posts from one of my other blogs. Why rewrite what’s already been written? Here it is: At the risk of seeming a little too self-involved, I’m using one of my favourite photos of me (used before) because this is rather a neat little post, in my view. [...]

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Silliness from the past

by Bill Wren on October 9, 2006

I’m going through a lot of old papers etc. Yesterday, I came across this – a poem of sorts I wrote about ten years ago. It’s a bit silly but I’ve always kind of liked it so for what it’s worth, here it is: One of us You were a car when you were young. [...]

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Where have I been?

by Bill Wren on October 1, 2006

Yes, I have not posted for a while. There are two reasons for this (somewhat connected). One, I’ve been very busy with work and with some personal changes that are currently in play. Two, I’ve been down east in Atlantic Canada. I must admit, I was tipsy quite often while tooling around New Brunswick and [...]

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