asking questions and discovering how little I know
From the category archives:
I’ve noticed, as you may have too, that we love absolutes, especially online. On Wednesday there was an opinion piece on the Globe and Mail site that said bloggers are male. Women who blog must have struggled with their sexual identity upon learning this. With trackable regularity, claims are made about this or that being [...]
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Having lost his mind and making himself what I imagine to be the recipient of gazillions of limericks, Roger Ebert is running a little limerick contest. Below are five of my lame efforts, only some of which I submitted. Please note: limericks are almost by definition ribald, so if you have a polite sensibility — you [...]
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In New Brunswick, there are several battles going on: the one between the power deal with Quebec and the H1N1 vaccine for top news story. Then there’s the one within that power deal between the those for and those against. There are a lot of kneejerk responses to the power deal, some of which are [...]
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Last week I came across a discussion over on LinkedIn about “real” writers. It began with a post about how sometimes you can come across a bully type in writing discussions, someone asserting that to be a “real” writer a person had to meet certain requirements. Often these assertions are followed by litanies of the [...]
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I'm Bill Wren, a writer-editor, social media enthusiast in Fredericton, New Brunswick. And that would be my dog, Molly Bloom, as a logo in the header.
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