In praise of broadening focus
Recently I’ve been listening to a podcast by comedian Mike Birbiglia called Working It Out. Episode 4 is less his usual quasi-formatted approach to interv...
Author: Reay
At a creative crossroads
I’m continuing to toil away at what will be my first novel, but have once again run into the “What exactly am I doing here?” stage. Meaning, i...
What I read this month
A big chunk of January was spent finishing off Y.S. Lee’s The Agency series (well worth your time if that genre is your thing, or perhaps even if it isn&#...
Finding the path to the sincerity of an art
I realized some years ago that I had long preferred to not touch up my photos. I would sometimes need to–cropping is not uncommon to lop off bits distract...
Isolation Day 294 Game: Unstable Unicorns
Following the unprecedented Kickstarter campaign success with Exploding Kittens, the same crew published Unstable Unicorns. Here, each player is trying to build...
Revisiting old good stuff, looking forward to new good stuff
Back in March of this year, I was bemoaning the fact that our Good Stuff jar was to that point sitting empty. And that was right at the start of what has become...
Top 10 favourite books of 2020
2020 was a terrible year in way too many respects, so it was a pleasure to be blessed with enough time to escape from it into books as often as I did. Despite t...
What I read this month
It was an unexpectedly bountiful month to wrap a banner year in reading. It certainly wasn’t without its passes and disappointments–five books start...
Top 10 favourite songs of 2020
To pair with my first year of keeping a song list–which includes every song my family and I added to our own various playlists through the year–I fi...
My 2020 song list
This year I decided to make a new playlist that was comprised of all of the songs I added in 2020 to other playlists. It didn’t matter if it was to my Sho...