by Mike Perry | Mar 20, 2024
Must Love Be A Bent Butterknife? My mother was a creative problem solver. In her pragmatic approach to life, she plowed ahead, assessed the situation, dealt with it, and moved on. Still, her ‘problem-solution-what’s next’ approach often resulted in negative...
by Mike Perry | Oct 2, 2023
Does It Matter? We were in New Brunswick or was it Nova Scotia? There was a donut shop at the gas station. Was it a Tim Horton’s or a Red Robin? Does it matter? I stopped and Sue got out to take a break. She was already walking away from the car as I opened my door...
by Mike Perry | Aug 2, 2023
It has come to my attention that many of the loquacious raconteurs who choose to share stories, group their tales into two categories: ‘fiction’ and ‘nonfiction.’ From the start I have always found this to be confusing, not the delineation of the two categories so...
by Mike Perry | Mar 18, 2023
Bring Back The Ampersand! “Where do stories come from?” They asked. “And?” You said, “What?” “And! That’s where stories come from.” There is a pause before you continue, addressing their confusion. “Stories come from wanting more. ‘And?’ That means...
by Mike Perry | Dec 6, 2022
There are thoughts that evoke meaning and come in riddled form. I suppose the word is poetry? These thoughts came to me after working with 6 other tellers. We shared and supported each other in our storytelling, and the next day, their tales melted into verse, a taste...
by Mike Perry | Oct 1, 2022
It was thought provoking, walking down those old stone steps, pushing back the brush, finding a path to the past. I asked “Where will these lead me? What’s the story here?”. There must have been a hundred of them, a century old I was sure. ‘One per year’, I thought...
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