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Tag: Da

  • A Terrible Time

    A Terrible Time

    This must be a terrible time to be a bookkeeper, accountant, or tax prep person. Especially in the prairies. I’ve heard horror stories from our auditor at work of people showing up on their doorstep with a couple of ExMas orange boxes and a garbage bag full of “receipts”, handing them over and saying “have…

  • The Last Thing

    Grief is an oscillation between want and have, between need and want, between here and gone. It does strange things to a person. When my mother died I kept saying to my aunt, over and over, “this must be so hard for you”. A Freudian might call it transference. My aunt finally broke and asked…

  • That’s Badass

    “So this one time, I was in a hurry, and I sliced the tip off of the end of my finger with a wood chisel. So I drive down to Dr. H’s clinic there, downtown, and I’m sitting in the waiting room and there’s this woman beside me and I hear Dr. H’s voice, and…

  • Sometimes the best ExMass story is a good Hallowe’en story

    “So I picked up this midget hitch-hiking,” he started. You know it’s a good story when it starts like that. Particularly when it’s my Da telling it. “Used to want to be a midget wrestler, he did. The guy thought wrestling was like that shite you see on teevee. I guess he got a big…