Fiction, Novels, Articles, Films

This article appeared in the January 21 edition of The Barrie Examiner. According to a post on Nov. 26, 2011 by the Drug Prevention Network of Canada, alcohol kills 9,000 people a year while smoking kills 37,000, with absolutely no mention of deaths attributed to marijuana use.

To film a particular scene in the movie Vanilla Sky the producers had to enlist the help of The New York Police Department to keep Times Square vacant for approximately 1 hour. It was a big deal coordinating solitude in the city that never sleeps. However, you would never have that problem here. This part of town is vacant.

This article appeared in the January 6 edition of The Barrie Examiner as the latest entry of Johnny Glanville's THE INSTRUCTOR column. It is an article about the benefits of therapy, especially as a preventative means. One of my favorite moments of being a tennis coach is the moment at the end of someone’s first lesson.

My socks are old and the elastic has loosened. They hang over my shoes and the sweat from my legs runs straight down to the soles of my feet. In the toes the moisture fills, it makes me want to air them out, to change socks every lesson, but there isn’t time for that. Instead I block it out of my mind and keep chasing tennis balls.

Three hockey players in as many months took their own life this summer. Jerry West, a Hall of Fame Laker player and general manager recently wrote his memoir, West by West,

This film was chosen as part of the 2011 Barrie Film Festival. It was shot in a single day in April of 2011. Its origins came from my father calling me up and telling me the cottage had been sold. I had a few weeks to go make sure none of my stuff was there.

It was a regular Sunday with nothing to do. You know how that is when you are 12 years old, or especially when you are 6. After being placed in charge of my 6 year old neice Brookelyn and my 12 year old newphew Nick for the day I decided to make an adventure out of an everyday experience.

This is my first attempt at poetry/prose. I was inspired by Shayne Koyczan who does this kind of stuff really well and since I had a bunch of left-over footage from the summer of 2011 it became a little three day project for me.

My wife is six months pregnant as she asks me how she looks. "You look normal and healthy, like you're pregnant," I reply. Wrong answer. She already knows this (the pregnant part) and for her, this is a bad thing; she wants to have the baby without actually looking like she's having the baby.

Billy’s tall tale was the only tall thing about him. Standing more than 6 inches shorter then the already shortest girl in his class Billy was the smallest kid in town by a long shot. At 10 years old he looked more like he was 8,