VICTOR ENNS Re: Writing about people you know Maurice, as I’m working on my Abbotsford workshop, one of my questions I want to leave with the participants …is so ok, you are using people from your life as characters whether truth or fiction, they may be recognized. Like in Detachment. Did Betsy read Detachment before
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WORKSHOP SEPTEMBER 29
WRITING POETRY AND FICTION ABOUT FAMILY MATTERS Facilitated by Victor Enns VICTOR’S BOOKS OF INTEREST FOR WORKSHOP 10:00 a.m. Sunday, September 29, 2019 Please register at the Clearbrook Public Library
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The Winnipeg Free Press and the New York Times have initiated major overhauls of their obituary pages, featuring someone less known form their archives in the case of the NYT, and a feature of someone from Manitoba that has died recently, but deserves to be recognized more thoroughly in the Free Press on the cover
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Having played Simon Stimson in our high school production of Our Town, it seemed fitting to become the choir director of the Glenlea Mennonite Church, pictured here. While this white clapboard structure wasn’t that different from most prairie churches, I always appreciated the windows you could look through, and as the sages say, they were
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Shit my mother said Modernist Bread and Flying pancakes https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/tell-me-something-i-dont-know-2/e/49183268?autoplay=true Just the first 1:30 seconds, haven’t figured out how to cut clips.
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Vot Mutta Zaid There are random low-German phrases I heard my mother say that surface when I find myself in similar sixty some-thing circumstances. I will try to repeat them the best I can. I will not translate them. I intend to mis-translate them, providing an association instead. Here’s the first. “Isn’t It Funny
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I is my middle initial. Stands for Irvin. My father wanted Ervin, German pronunciation. I mispronounced the spelling of our last name making the phone order for the concrete closure on the vault my mother’s grave. She was afraid of drowning having learned to swim only in later life. It was hard to miss as
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I started recording an audio website component this afternoon. Plan to post it here and on Sound Cloud. It’s taking me a while to learn, and it’s aggravating. It takes a long time to upload tracks at WillowsBend, with a slow tethered internet connection, even though all of them will be less than five minutes
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