talebender
@talebender.bsky.social
🇨🇦 😷Husband, father, grandfather. ✏️Author, ✏️Poet, 🎶 Singer 😷
#MaskUp
Writers write. Each one differently. There is no magic method or daily word count to suit all. There is only one maxim: writers write.
www.tallandtruetales.blog
#MaskUp
Writers write. Each one differently. There is no magic method or daily word count to suit all. There is only one maxim: writers write.
www.tallandtruetales.blog
Little-known fact---
People who grew up reading Archie comics spell the word this way: Duh-h!
People who watched The Simpsons spell it: Doh-h!
People who grew up reading Archie comics spell the word this way: Duh-h!
People who watched The Simpsons spell it: Doh-h!
January 24, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Little-known fact---
People who grew up reading Archie comics spell the word this way: Duh-h!
People who watched The Simpsons spell it: Doh-h!
People who grew up reading Archie comics spell the word this way: Duh-h!
People who watched The Simpsons spell it: Doh-h!
Make it make sense……
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Making Sense
A few years ago, I wrote about a favourite high school English teacher who challenged us one day to make sense of the following sentence he’d written on the chalkboard: It was and I said not but. I…
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January 23, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Make it make sense……
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"It's unAmerican!" now appears to mean "It's unwhatAmericanusedtobe!"
Alas!
Alas!
January 15, 2026 at 9:53 PM
"It's unAmerican!" now appears to mean "It's unwhatAmericanusedtobe!"
Alas!
Alas!
Sorry, not sorry, eh! 🇨🇦
The only thing I ever learned about Canada is they'll make any flat service into a hockey rink.
December 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Sorry, not sorry, eh! 🇨🇦
I may be wrong about this (sorry, eh?), but I wonder if the problem in the US isn’t GOP vs Dems, but big oligarch money (domestic and foreign) in your politics.
Who pays the piper calls the tune.
Who pays the piper calls the tune.
December 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I may be wrong about this (sorry, eh?), but I wonder if the problem in the US isn’t GOP vs Dems, but big oligarch money (domestic and foreign) in your politics.
Who pays the piper calls the tune.
Who pays the piper calls the tune.
Otter & Osprey Press, a Canadian publisher, has just released a second edition of my thirteenth novel—The Lonely, Silvery Rain. It's available in print and e-book formats, including Kindle.
This safe link will direct you to your preferred online retailer---https://geni.us/thelonelysilveryrain
This safe link will direct you to your preferred online retailer---https://geni.us/thelonelysilveryrain
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Otter & Osprey Press, a Canadian publisher, has just released a second edition of my thirteenth novel—The Lonely, Silvery Rain. It's available in print and e-book formats, including Kindle.
This safe link will direct you to your preferred online retailer---https://geni.us/thelonelysilveryrain
This safe link will direct you to your preferred online retailer---https://geni.us/thelonelysilveryrain
August 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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though you’ve grown old and
frail, I still see your awesome
strength and purity
#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt
frail, I still see your awesome
strength and purity
#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt
August 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
though you’ve grown old and
frail, I still see your awesome
strength and purity
#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt
frail, I still see your awesome
strength and purity
#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt
August 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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to free your children,
hug them close, then let them go---
they’ll e’er be with you
#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt
hug them close, then let them go---
they’ll e’er be with you
#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt
August 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
to free your children,
hug them close, then let them go---
they’ll e’er be with you
#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt
hug them close, then let them go---
they’ll e’er be with you
#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt
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A Trump nation that executes prisoners, lets pregnant women die rather than allow them abortions, refuses medical care for the poor, and values guns more than lives is not well-placed to lecture Canada on offering assisted dying for terminally ill people in agony.
August 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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