On a media article, a joke/poem, and a brief update on writing a novel:
“I’VE SPENT the last 15 winters, on and off, flitting around the world’s great ski towns, from the Swiss Alps to the Colorado Rockies to the Chilean Andes. With this winter’s flurries of Covid travel restrictions and surging lift prices across the U.S., I stayed in my native Canada this season. And I realized that the covetable combination of first-rate skiing, fabulous scenery and small-town coziness that I’d sought in ski spots around the world exists in my own backyard, and for much friendlier prices.”
I have said before on this blog that Americans are sometimes known for making fun of Canada; I don’t think it is mean-spirited. It is a beautiful country, and the people seem cheerful and nice. I used to ski a lot but not recently.
The above-quoted paragraph is from the start of a The Wall Street Journal travel piece about skiing in Canada. I spent one vacation in the Colorado Rockies just west of Denver skiing at a resort that must have been similar to Canada ski resorts. I have also been to Quebec as a child with family and skied in Washington state, which must be similar to Western Canada environmentally and all. Many evergreen trees. Haha.
A poem
“Dan” by yours truly
Dan Druff is back (heart attack?).
After decades away.
Hey, hey, hey. It’s fat Dan Druff.
(Remember the cartoon,
Or pining for the moon?)
“Hey, don’t make my scalp itch.”
It’s almost like scalp twitch.
Life is a b—-.
Update on short novel:
Almost done. It may be a bit briefer than initially targetted. Already have about 73 pages but may only get to about 100 pages, not 120. My attitude is many of us have shorter attention spans, so briefer could be better. And it is not like I am Stephen King, Tolstoy, or Dickens.