What’s your take on the “ample supply” of pictures of funny kittens, cute puppies and fluffy bunnies that are doing the rounds on social media? Opinions likely span the entire spectrum, from “Jail the kitten posters” to “We need fluffy bunny pictures everywhere, and I mean everywhere!” Who knows—the spectrum may be even wider! My blogs recently celebrated their first… Read more »
How many things never cease to amaze you? The arrogance of politicians, the naivety of optimists, the gullibility of people who go to timeshare presentations, the stupidity of politicians, the number of cars on the road, the polarization of the climate change debate, the duplicity of politicians, the size of this week’s lottery prize, the amount of garbage discarded by… Read more »
Mrs. H. and I have just made this informal arrangement wherein whichever one of us dies first, the other will have a cardboard cutout of our late spouse made. Sounds creepy, doesn’t it! But “it’s not what you think.” (How many times have you heard that defence being used?) It’s all to do with remembering things and solving problems. Back… Read more »
Here at the Hatchery, we have company in from England for a couple of weeks. My favourite second-cousin-on-my-mum’s-side and the only godparent to have retained an interest in our kids’ spiritual welfare (and who has recently been promoted(? Demoted?) to honorary cousin) arrived here in the frozen north last Friday ostensibly to spend some time with Mrs. H. and me—although… Read more »
If this was a Twitter post, I’d have called it “Shredded Tweet”, but it’s longer than 140 characters, so there’s another opportunity missed. We just had the mother of all hailstorms. Both Mrs. H and I work from home, and there’s usually someone home at all times, but this afternoon we were out shooting video for a high school grad—the… Read more »
Recently, I’ve taken to reading more than one book at a time. In a two-storey house with a developed basement in which I sleep in the upper storey and work in the basement, it makes sense—I can keep one book in the basement bathroom and another in our bedroom. What I should do though, is to ensure that I’m not… Read more »
My latest play, Trail Mix and Chips, was performed four times last week, and is due to be performed in competition on April 30th (yes, I’m writing this prior to the competition). Two of the younger members of the theatre group I belong to had asked me to write a script for them, and requested a two-person romantic comedy. I… Read more »
I have several books of quotations on my bookshelves, although they frequently spend time in the bathroom. I came across the following quotation that both tickled me and resonated with me. There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set. —Harriet Van Horne By coincidence,… Read more »
(The mission of this blog is to provide articles that address some facet of the arts and culture. Sometimes the connection is tenuous—occasionally, it’s a-l-m-o-s-t invisible. Although the context of the underlying subject matter is global, this article is geared towards the arts and culture elements of that subject. My support for the entire initiative is, at this point, wholehearted… Read more »
Things are a little frazzled this week here at the Hatchery. My goal was to get some of my writings laid out on a cyber-stall so that an indifferent world might have something new to ignore. Being an independent kind of a chappie (or maybe because I’m a tightwad) the only way to achieve this was with no paid help… Read more »