asking questions and discovering how little I know
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I just came back from walking the dog in the park. While there, we met a guy. We stopped and chatted. He told me his story. I now feel exuberant. His story contained joy and tragedy; points of recognition; coincidence; verve and laughter. It amazed me. It goes like this: If you’ve read my posts [...]
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I don’t know what stars align on Tuesdays but it seems to be the day when a good deal of my writing gets published. It has happened often; it has happened again today. First, I have a review of Nick Carr’s The Shallows on the Thoughtwrestling blog today. I also have a brief piece on [...]
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It has been a hectic week, to say the least. I don’t know how it went for anyone else, but mine felt as if whenever I wrapped up one thing, two more would appear. But it was productive, at least as far as my writing went. On Tuesday, I had a brief opinion item in [...]
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The following are relatively recent items I’ve written and had published elsewhere. The three most recent are: The lottery: what will I do with all the money? – Daily Gleaner The hardest thing you’ll ever do – contributor, Thoughtwrestling blog Creative energy is air – contributor, Thoughtwrestling blog The rest: Thoughtwrestling (blog contributor) The hardest [...]
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Expressions are so confusing. Currently, when stories break in places like Haiti, Chile, Afghanistan and others, reporters that go to cover the stories tell us what is happening. When they get to the locations and begin filing their reports, I always hear, “Our reporter is on the ground …” Do they have options? Could they, [...]
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If you don’t see a post here today, or over the next few days, the reason will be the contents of the screen capture below. Hope it’s a great weekend where you are too! Listen
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I saw a rather disturbing comment in the letters area of the local paper (Fredericton’s Daily Gleaner). It went thus: “The average New Brunswicker is not qualified to make the final decision concerning the sale of NB Power. We do not have access to those in the know and the massive amounts of information required [...]
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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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