David Sherman She’s fourth in line at the café, cell phone in hand. Like just about everyone else in the joint. Her phone’s playing a...

If you can remember wincing, eye-rolling and giggling through those sex-ed films that were inflicted on adolescents by reel-to-reel...

Earl Faulkner The shocking story you are about to read is true. It was long ago and it was far away and it was so much better than it is...

David Sherman   It’s opera on ice, but here it’s only beginning when the fat lady sings. And she’s not always fat. On these frozen...

Earl Fowler Old people have always been champion grousers and complainers, of course. Socrates fretted that literacy would be the death...

Earl Fowler Chapter 1: The Dame Wore Danger It was a Tuesday, the kind that sticks to your trench coat like bad decisions and day-old egg...

David Sherman The crow’s pissed. Whether because we were away for a time or because we had come back is unclear, but he's not happy. He...

Ask Philip Marlowe, street savvy PI “He solves hearts like he solves murders — cynically, and with a double scotch.” Dear Marlowe, I’m a...

Please note: It has come to the attention of concerned website monitors that the recent post in this blog titled “Top 10 Senior Pickup...

Earl Fowler My dad was one of those guys who could fix anything. Jammed carburetors, leaning fences, plugged pumps, broken vacuum...

Lately I’ve found myself drawn to Asian women in their forties with bare arms and tanned skin and shaved pits who graduated (the women,...

Barb Kelly, from her collection Leave-taking. Copies for sale at cactuspresspoetry.com , listed under Chapbooks. Price: $13   I rest on...

For the silver on top but still gold where it counts crowd: 10.  Do you believe in love at first cataract surgery, or should I walk by...

Earl Fowler Spring comes early to the southern tip of Vancouver Island. By late January, the daffodil bulbs and hyacinths I transplanted...

Quinn McIlhone I renounce her at Christmas but fly back from Florida in mid-January to find the city electric only because she’s in it,...

David Sherman Peter says he doesn’t feel like himself. That’s probably because he’s not himself. He’s the new older version, pushing a...

For my part, in truth, I would rather be old less long than be old before I am old. — Cicero Earl Fowler Act I Detective Rex Marlowe  –...

Earl Fowler After posting an ersatz Romantic poem in this space last Sunday about the astonishing florescence of spring on Vancouver...

Earl Fowler Feeling neglected and a little bleu, perhaps, what with all the media attention being showered on Canada’s federal election...

Earl Fowler It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of the night, and the voice on the other...