http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog The Les Becker Blog: Writer (fiction, non-fiction, story-telling, memories, screenplays, radioplays, lyrics, ghost-writing, magazine articles, tourism and event promotion) and amateur photographer from Northern Ontario. Looking to escape Northern Ontario. Rescue me. Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:31:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2009/03/16/i-think-im-awake-now/ http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2009/03/16/i-think-im-awake-now/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:58:47 +0000 Les awakedreamfoliagehibernatehibernatinghideplantssleepsleepingwork http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/?p=1005

]]> Hiding…Taken March 14, 2009 with Canon PowerShot A550 I’m a-skeered to call the betch, for fear she’ll just tell me to shove it.Okay, so maybe it hasn’t been hiding, so much, that I’ve been doing. Maybe, it’s been more like hibernating. I’ve been working and sleeping and getting up long enough to go [...]

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]]> The 1998 Version of My Aunt Blanche… No, really, let’s compare, shall we? If only to piss off my daughter – who tells me she’ll kill me if I post this, but then laughs out loud when she looks at this photo of herself, so I think I’m all good… Tell me that’s not eerie… Blanche, [...]

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