Category: Hot Shots

Dear Ones,I bet you forgot about me.  I’m sorry about that.  Well, NEXT!!!It’s Valentine’s Day, and I did a very minor bit of research last night after shredding a love letter that just...
Dear Ones,This morning I did the poor man’s house warming trick that is cranking the oven and opening it up and fanning the heat around the kitchen with a dishtowel.  Don’t tell my landlord....
Dear Ones,We’re quickly approaching the shortest day of the year and as Stuart McLean told a packed house at the Orpheum Theatre on Thursday evening that this is the time of year when we have to...
Last winter I bought a megaphone.  I found it on Craigslist and Valerie took me to pick it up from a very rich Dad who had bought it for a sports day event for his kids at school.  The...
Dear Ones,Almost nothing charming has happened to me this week that is worth sharing with you.  I’ve been under a mountain of books I do not want to read but must.  This is how a person can...
Dear Ones,I’ve been moved already today.  One Cliff Leir of Fol Epi in Victoria called this morning to place an order.  Once we hung up I looked Cliff’s bakery up on the internet.  I...
Last Sunday Valerie picked me up at six and took me to the Chan Center at UBC (a gift!) to see seventy-two year old Mavis Staples sing and holler into a microphone as though she was twenty-two....
Dear Ones,I am celebrating the eve of the day that my mother's womb evicted me tonight, with a feast in honour of some of the friends I have that make days feel too short somehow, whose company often...
Dear Ones,Expect fewer delays with your Hot Shots in the weeks to come and from then on.  I promise these will be in your inbox Monday morning from here on in.  From now on you can count on...
Dear Ones,We’re all back from our summer time adventuring, spending long late evenings with people we love, staying up late and waking up early just to be with the sun, a sun that seems to be...
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