talebender
@talebender.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Husband, father, grandfather. ✏️Author, ✏️Poet, 🎶 Singer
Writers write. Each one differently. There is no magic method or daily word count to suit all. There is only one maxim: writers write.
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Writers write. Each one differently. There is no magic method or daily word count to suit all. There is only one maxim: writers write.
www.tallandtruetales.blog
Back to school, baby!
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The End of Summer
This essay was first published 40 years ago when I was still a school principal. End of summer…the time of year when many newspapers publish articles aimed at parents whose children are getting rea…
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September 4, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Back to school, baby!
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Jet planes, life cycles, cataclysms, attention spans, and dandelions.....what's the connection?
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The Dandelions
If this entire post appears in the body of your email, click the title to read it in its natural blog setting. During the grand opening ceremonies of a worldwide sporting event the other day, six m…
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June 13, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Jet planes, life cycles, cataclysms, attention spans, and dandelions.....what's the connection?
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At a hockey playoff game the other night, I was reminded why I like so many American friends despite your abysmal government. During the rendition of the Canadian anthem, the singer’s mic gave out, so the crowd belted out the rest of the anthem in perfect tune!
Well played, Buffalo! 🇨🇦
Well played, Buffalo! 🇨🇦
April 30, 2026 at 12:34 AM
At a hockey playoff game the other night, I was reminded why I like so many American friends despite your abysmal government. During the rendition of the Canadian anthem, the singer’s mic gave out, so the crowd belted out the rest of the anthem in perfect tune!
Well played, Buffalo! 🇨🇦
Well played, Buffalo! 🇨🇦
“Yeah, some people may suffer, but I like his style!”
⬇️⬇️⬇️
“Hey! This is hurtin’ ME now! He’s gotta be stopped!”
Shoulda thought of that sooner, boyo! It’s called empathy!
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“Hey! This is hurtin’ ME now! He’s gotta be stopped!”
Shoulda thought of that sooner, boyo! It’s called empathy!
April 10, 2026 at 5:52 PM
“Yeah, some people may suffer, but I like his style!”
⬇️⬇️⬇️
“Hey! This is hurtin’ ME now! He’s gotta be stopped!”
Shoulda thought of that sooner, boyo! It’s called empathy!
⬇️⬇️⬇️
“Hey! This is hurtin’ ME now! He’s gotta be stopped!”
Shoulda thought of that sooner, boyo! It’s called empathy!
Questions galore.....
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I Wonder Why?
If this whole story appears in the body of your email, click the title to read it in its natural blog setting. In all the time I’ve known her, sixty-three years and counting, the woman who has been…
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April 1, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Questions galore.....
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Little-known fact---
People who grew up reading Archie comics spell the word this way: Duh-h!
People who watched The Simpsons spell it: Doh-h!
People who grew up reading Archie comics spell the word this way: Duh-h!
People who watched The Simpsons spell it: Doh-h!
January 24, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Little-known fact---
People who grew up reading Archie comics spell the word this way: Duh-h!
People who watched The Simpsons spell it: Doh-h!
People who grew up reading Archie comics spell the word this way: Duh-h!
People who watched The Simpsons spell it: Doh-h!
Make it make sense……
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Making Sense
A few years ago, I wrote about a favourite high school English teacher who challenged us one day to make sense of the following sentence he’d written on the chalkboard: It was and I said not but. I…
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January 23, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Make it make sense……
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"It's unAmerican!" now appears to mean "It's unwhatAmericanusedtobe!"
Alas!
Alas!
January 15, 2026 at 9:53 PM
"It's unAmerican!" now appears to mean "It's unwhatAmericanusedtobe!"
Alas!
Alas!
Sorry, not sorry, eh! 🇨🇦
The only thing I ever learned about Canada is they'll make any flat service into a hockey rink.
December 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Sorry, not sorry, eh! 🇨🇦
I may be wrong about this (sorry, eh?), but I wonder if the problem in the US isn’t GOP vs Dems, but big oligarch money (domestic and foreign) in your politics.
Who pays the piper calls the tune.
Who pays the piper calls the tune.
December 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I may be wrong about this (sorry, eh?), but I wonder if the problem in the US isn’t GOP vs Dems, but big oligarch money (domestic and foreign) in your politics.
Who pays the piper calls the tune.
Who pays the piper calls the tune.
Otter & Osprey Press, a Canadian publisher, has just released a second edition of my thirteenth novel—The Lonely, Silvery Rain. It's available in print and e-book formats, including Kindle.
This safe link will direct you to your preferred online retailer---https://geni.us/thelonelysilveryrain
This safe link will direct you to your preferred online retailer---https://geni.us/thelonelysilveryrain
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Otter & Osprey Press, a Canadian publisher, has just released a second edition of my thirteenth novel—The Lonely, Silvery Rain. It's available in print and e-book formats, including Kindle.
This safe link will direct you to your preferred online retailer---https://geni.us/thelonelysilveryrain
This safe link will direct you to your preferred online retailer---https://geni.us/thelonelysilveryrain
August 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
August 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
though you’ve grown old and
frail, I still see your awesome
strength and purity
#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt
frail, I still see your awesome
strength and purity
#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt
August 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
though you’ve grown old and
frail, I still see your awesome
strength and purity
#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt
frail, I still see your awesome
strength and purity
#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt
August 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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