Fiction – Page 4 – Chris Loblaw, Author

Brought low by something so small

I like to think that I’m tough. Don’t we all? That we can face adverse events and unpleasant surprises without being set off course. But then a tiny little medical situation made the assumption of resiliency coming crashing down. I had a bad nosebleed right before New Years. And then I dislodged the scab twiceContinue reading “Brought low by something so small”

Me? A techno-optimist???

We’ve all enjoyed a hearty dose of doom over the last few years, haven’t we? It’s been so easy to see the possible calamities (both natural and manufactured by humanity’s poor decisions) and fall to the ground with hopelessness. Wildfires! Pandemics! Culture war strife! Actual war! Sinking fertility rates! Rising global temperatures! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM. Did youContinue reading “Me? A techno-optimist???”

Election signs are important

Ah, the municipal campaign season is nearing its end. And soon, the flock of sign grouses will return to their roosts and hibernate until the next campaign begins. You can identify the sign grouse by their grumbling complaints about the existence of campaign signs. To them, evidently, there is no greater blight on the urbanContinue reading “Election signs are important”