Second Wind Publishing invites you to submit an entry to our holiday short story contest. Entries are to be holiday stories of any genre that mention a food of some kind. (The food item can be a focus of the story or simply a prop.) The winner will be included in Second Helpings, a short [...]
The last few days have been a bit too weird to be believable. For months friends have been telling me, “Al, you are a good writer. People love your stories.” Now I have to accept it. my previous reluctance to accept, even the remote possibility of it, comes from years of being told I was [...]
Like an enormous number of writers out there, I spent years looking for someone who may prove to be vaguely interested in what I had to say when it came to story writing. Then a few years back I met an individual on line who was part of a small press publishing company. Fine – [...]
It’s no secret that the Chinese are superstitious and look at things differently. The Cantonese and their play on words is truly inexhaustible and likely unappreciated by non-Chinese speakers. They find it totally ridiculous. Take numbers for instance. Number 4 is unlucky and you might wonder why. In Cantonese, the word four translates into say, [...]
World Chess Champions have been relatively few and far between, as the official title did not exist until 1866 and some reigned for long periods. However, this elite class of players, many personally unknown to one another because of temporal realities, shared much in terms of personality and lifestyle. Chess at its highest levels is [...]
I wanted to write an upbeat, tickle your heart Mother’s Day message – one to resonate with the feeling of love one has when these holidays roll on in for another visit. Our two oldest sons and their wives are on one coast of this fantastically beautiful county we call home whilst I reside on [...]
I wanna see an episode of Celebrity Bear Jeopardy because I wanna see how smart the average bear is. What is Yogi really bragging about? I haven’t seen a think tank of bears at MIT or a group of astrophysicist bears at the Houston Headquarters of NASA or being certified by the AMA to conduct [...]
If you are the kind of reader who desperately needs to have every nuance, ever action and reaction explained to you like a small child, then my style of science fiction writing is clearly not for you. I write in such a way as to make you ask yourself questions all the way through the [...]
Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc., said, Our only cleverness was in the perception of what was happening, and in being quick enough to take advantage of it. Seriously into 2012, have you thought of giving your leadership a mental tuneup? What am I talking about? Give your whole year so far a going [...]
Whenever I look in the mainstream, Canadian media, they are always showing the negative side of RIM. For the record, everyone I know has a blackberry. The media must change its narrative. Some may feel the blackberry is an endangered species. Instead of bashing a Canadian company, the media should encourage RIM to diversify their [...]
