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Category Archives: Miscellany
Good Times with Old Friends
Had a wonderful time today visiting with three fellow author friends and TWUC members in downtown Nanaimo this sunny afternoon at a sidewalk table at Serious Coffee as the world passed by on Commercial Street. My compatriots were Della Burford, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Miscellany
Tagged authors, Della Burford, Kim Goldberg, Publishing, Sandy Duncan, Sylvia Sikundar, The Writers' Union of Canada, TWUC
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Nanaimo Home for Sale – $260K
SOLD! There were multiple offers on this property and I have now accepted one of them. So this house is no longer available. Thank you all for your interest! ********************** Handyman Special at 345 Howard Avenue! Price: $260,000 (“as is”) … Continue reading
Solitude and the Artist
by Kim Goldberg Most people simply cannot grok prolonged solitude. This makes it hard on those of us who work creatively as writers, artists, poets, visionaries. To think the thought that has never been thought, to write the line that … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellany
Tagged artists, creativity, isolationism, poets, rapture, solitude, Taoism, the artist's journey, writers
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Language as a vector of pain
I recently had someone tell me he disowns me. This struck me as an incongruous turn of phrase since he never owned me to begin with (nor does anyone else for that matter), thereby making disownership a non sequitur, a … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellany
Tagged child custody, dead leaves, language, logical fallacies, neuro-linguistic programming, pain, parental alienation, photography, semantics
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Welcome!
Welcome to Pig Squash Press! You have arrived at the cyber-home, alter ego, publishing imprint and creative conduit connecting me – Kim Goldberg – to the rest of the planet (and possibly beyond). Join me as I blog about books, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Miscellany, Poetry
Tagged graffiti, Hepatitis C, homelessness, internal alchemy, Kim Goldberg, Liuhebafa, Martial Arts, Nanaimo, Pig Squash Press, poetry, Red Zone, Ride Backwards on Dragon, Taoism
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Happy 80th Joe Rosenblatt!
My friend and colleague Joe Rosenblatt turned 80 on Boxing Day. And a bunch of us artsy fartsy types (plus a few real people who’ve done an honest day’s work) celebrated the grand occasion at Joe & Faye’s home in … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellany, Poetry
Tagged Canadian artists, Canadian poets, Catherine Owen, Joe Rosenblatt, Karen Moe, Kim Goldberg, Qualicum, Vancouver Island
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It Was a Dark Time
It was a dark time across the land. The people suffered greatly. Small creatures scurried in the shadows, and a thick pestilence clung to the streets. No doors would open because twigs had been jammed into all the locks. And … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellany, Politics
Tagged alternative media, citizen-controlled media, Community Radio, Globe Hotel, Nanaimo, Queens Hotel, Radio CHLY, Radio Malaspina
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Wizard of Oz
When copy editors get bored…
Posted in Humor, Miscellany
Tagged bloopers, editing, funny things in print, gags, jokes, laughs, TV Guide, Wizard of Oz
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