Best-selling and Award-winning Author of Young Adult Thrillers
We rode bikes. And when our bikes were screwed up or stolen, we walked. Four abreast, sometimes six, taking up the whole sidewalk in a tight huddle. People coming in the other direction stepped off into the road, more to […]
During the long, cold, wet months, the corrugated steel roof did nothing to keep us warm but it did allow the raindrops to ricochet off of it like small steel balls. I found something comforting in that racket. We rigged […]
LOVE YOU LIKE SUICIDE is a creative non-fiction e-book novella I wrote, published by FIERCE INK PRESS. Part of the proceeds go to benefit youth at Heartwood Centre, an awesome organization in Halifax that works within the […]
GG Allin is writhing around on a bed of broken glass on stage and screaming about his penis but none of us are paying any attention to him. K and I just got back from a visit to the bathroom […]
1 Chevy milk truck, 1 5-member punk rock band, 3 roadies(?), assorted other tag-a-longs some for a while, some for the long haul, some socks that stink like death. cheese death. we hang them from the outside mirror and the […]
Next month I have a creative non-fiction short coming out, Love You Like Suicide. It will be e-pubbed by FIERCE INK PRESS and I’ll post more details here when I have them. It was a very difficult piece for me […]
I was just walking the dog along the first part of the trail, the one that follows the back harbor and looks out across the water onto red barns and rolling fields and makes me feel like I really do […]
Odysseus is my favourite hero in all of Greek mythology. Actually the rest of them kind of piss me off. Theseus, Perseus, beef-witted Ajax, Paris who is a self-centered ass, and Achilles who is a great big douche. I’m quite […]
When each of my kids was young I would take them for long hikes carried in a Bjorn or an Ergo baby sling up hills and down, and through woods and along streams. And even before they had learned how […]
I got my first tattoo because a six foot six inch transsexual hooker named Destiny told me to. Well to be fair, she told me and my best friend K that it would be totally cool if we both had […]