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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

St. Catharines, 2015.12.25

At grandma's in Saint Catharines for Christmas - probably for the last time, as she's planning to leave. I was completely unprepared this year, having been so flat out busy with studies, work, and "professional associations". The weather didn't help - it was the warmest Christmas Day on record anywhere in the country, if I understood the news correctly. We didn't need jackets!

But it was a fine time. And the kids are awash in gifts. We now have a classy lawn-bowling set, a quadcopter "Millennium Falcon", and a string of new playtime dresses in the household. In preparation for this year's ice fishing, Ken's also got snowshoes! Can't wait.

rand()m quote

Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

—Anton Chekhov