Who watched? The Blue Jays lost 😞.
Clocks fell back, just like what’s happening in the U.S. Except ours was only an hour, not all the way to the ’30s.
Stoic rule: stay steady while everyone else resets their clocks.
What’s your ritual before winter hits? ☕📖
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Heading up north, five hours of highway, coffee fumes, and questionable playlists. Near the Soo(tell me you’re a Canuck if you know). Expect dazzling fall shots soon. Made the mistake of reading a few moronic posts already. Coffee. I need coffee. ☕🍂 #StoicWriter #CoffeeAndBooks #IndieAuthor
The MAGA youth text scandal isn’t just gross, it’s a warning. Those “youth outreach” fronts creeping north are the first stage of indoctrination.
If you want to see where that road leads, read my book Pejorative. Here, coffee in hand, calling it out. ☕📚🐸
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New week, same circus. We're told the cities are feral, chaotic or worse. Disinfo everywhere, and no one taught the basics of info defence. More frogs, fewer kings, that’s the vibe. We’ll be watching from up north, coffee in hand. My book would help. ☕️🐸
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Sold 11 books yesterday. Not bad for an indie with a French press and stubborn hope. ☕📖
Thanksgiving weekend here, so, U.S., please keep it down for a day. I know it’s hard. I know.
Now figuring out how to keep the sales rolling… and finish the next novel draft. #IndieAuthor #StoicWriter
Train track, yellow strip. Looking into the morning sun
Cool morning, waiting for the train, fall in the air and a book in my bag. Escaping last week’s circus for a few quiet pages before my own chaos begins.
My novel drops this weekend. Coffee rides shotgun. ☕️📖🍂 #DystopianReads #StoicWriter #CoffeeAndBooks
CBC buries our PM’s UN address, front-loads Trump’s addled rant. That’s not journalism, that’s importing U.S. chaos. And now our official opposition cites FOX? My French press growled this morning: filter your media, or get filtered by it. ☕️ #ResistanceLit #StoicWriter #MediaLiteracy
Will today be “normal”? Research says Tylenol IS safe, don’t take medical advice from men dismantling science. Jimmy’s back, my book drops in a week, and my French press says: keep writing. Endure, adapt, brew. ☕️📖 #StoicWriter #ResistanceLit #Coffee #Books
Last week was a shit show. If you think that was a memorial and not a fascist rally, broadcast on CBC, no less, we’ve got a problem. I spit my coffee out. Hoping not to waste another cup this week… not holding my breath. ☕️ #StoicWriter #ResistanceLit #Coffee
5 a.m., coffee and book edits. Canada fights hate; we’ll keep fighting. Hockey’s back. Go Leafs! Some countries still can’t tell an acronym from a threat. Hungary, that’s you. U.S., take the day off from Chaos. Please. ☕️📖🏒
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To the US ambassador: not at war with you, just your tariffs, vitriol & fascist cosplay. Yup, “Elbows up” is Canadian. Hurt feelings? That’s on you. My coffee has harsher thoughts, but saying them would be unCanadian. I'm-a going to write instead.☕️ #StoicWriter #ResistanceLit #elbowsup
Kept up with the young crowd yesterday, son’s back at his res, I’m back to routine. Two weeks from launch. Meanwhile the U.S. rages like a dumpster fire you can smell from here. French press mutters—focus on today, not the circus.☕️📚 p.s. I use em dashes
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Sat down to write, ended up doing some marketing plans for Pejorative. The book owns me, not the other way around. Squirrel brain says jump, coffee says keep going. Stoics would laugh, discipline looks like chaos from the outside. ☕️📚 #StoicWriter #AmWriting #CoffeeAndBooks
On my way to grab my son (10 hour drive). Ugh. I see South of the border, “free speech” now means you can preach hate but not question it. Stoics knew this trick: power fears truth, not lies. I’ll take my truth black, in a large cup. ☕️📖 #StoicWriter #ResistanceLit #CoffeeAndBooks
Dystopia isn’t new, it’s just unevenly distributed. Some live it daily, others are only waking up to it. My latest memoir fragment: silence is complicity, endurance is not apathy. ✍️☕️
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Chicago, resistance isn’t news, it’s survival. The world half-asleep. I'm awake, coffee in hand, I finish Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation and remember: vigilance is the only luxury left. This author supports Chicago!☕️📖 #StoicWriter #ResistanceNotes
A comic strip of a couple realizing they both forgot their anniversary. He panics on the bus, she laughs at her desk, and they both text the same thing: “I can’t believe we both forgot!” A running joke turned tradition.
34 years today. Both forgot. Not this time. Marriage: two Gen Xers fueled by coffee (she’s decaf), sarcasm, and selective memory. We may suck at anniversaries, but we’re damn good at showing up. Drew a cartoon the first time it happened (reminders set.) ☕️❤️ #StoicWriter #AmWriting #GenXLove
Watching science denial metastasize, RFK Jr., Florida, Alberta, like a plague of its own. Vaccines SAVE lives; madness takes them. We can’t just yell through glass, call it out! Fight it! stop the contagion! Others see the problem, right?☕️🦠 #StoicWriter #FightTheFog #PublicHealthMatters
Latest ARC feedback’s solid, physio was painful, work’s chaos. Fine. Life doesn’t owe me easy, just coffee. The grind hurts, but at least pain makes edits real. Sip, cut, repeat. ☕️✍️ #AmWriting #StoicWriter #EditingLife
Coffee’s hot, the political circus South serves another nothing burger. I'm in review doldrums, but I remember, the work is mine, the outcome isn’t. Pejorative will stand or fall, but today I show up. One sentence. One sip. Repeat. ☕️✍️ #AmWriting #StoicWriter #SlowBrewMornings
Missed a few words after 500 reviews of Pejorative😏. Fixed some interviews, sharper now. Coffee hot, doom-scroll cold. The “turn-up king” may or may not appear, but patience is the only throne worth keeping. ☕ #StoicWriter #WritingLife #MorningRituals
Turnup alive or not, the chaos plays on. Russia says no to peace. Book bans leak north. The U.S. caught red-handed in Greenland. I read my book aloud (preorder it now), terrifying how close fiction feels to fact. Still, the Stoic truth: we face it, sip coffee, write on. ☕️📖 #StoicWriter #AmWriting
Back with the 5am writers club. Don’t fear the work ahead, face it. So I do. Coffee, front matter audio done, waiting on Pejorative feedback. Sliding into the next WIP. Long weekends are for asking: what’s next, more sci-fi or fantasy? ☕️✍️ #AmWriting #5amWritersClub #StoicWriter
Not quite 5am but I’m up. Farmers market this morning, waiting on the apples. Might record a few chapters, just samples for a friend working audio. Autumn’s creeping in, coffee’s on. Anyone seen Trump lately? ☕🍎 #AmWriting #StoicWriter
In the U.S. tariffs cut their coffee, CDC cuts their science. South of the border: noise. North of it: 5am dawn, hot mug, steady page. Calm isn’t complacency...it’s clarity. #StoicWriter #5AmWritersClub #MorningRituals
Morning chill, geese cutting south, and scam DMs circling like vultures. Same trick, same pitch. I block, brew, and write anyway. Coffee’s the only deal worth taking. Control what you can. #StoicWriter #AutumnDrafts #AuthorBeware
Democracy shakes, governors bark “No,” the Guard rolls out, should they? Still, coffee brews. I write. A page endures longer than the shouting. ☕️📖 #StoicWriter #AmWriting #MorningRituals
Fall’s crisp bite in the air, mug warm in my hands. Feedback’s pending, but ideas keep circling, fantasy, sci-fi, alt-history. The Stoic move? Write what I can control: one page, one sip, repeat.
✍️☕️ #StoicWriter #AutumnDrafts #WritingLife
A view from a cottage bunkee window with a travel mug on the sill, showing lush green trees outside and a stained-glass panel above.
Morning in the bunkee. Blue jays yammer like they’ve got opinions worth hearing. Coffee in one hand, book in the other, the main cottage still asleep. This is how you hold the world steady. ☕📖 #MorningRituals #StoicWriter
Packing for the cottage:
– Printed manuscript for Book 1 of a trilogy(WIP)
– Proof copy of the next novel, almost done
– PDF outline of the next WIP
– Coffee (obviously)
Wife: “Clothes?”
…Right.
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