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The Week That Was… October 11th-17th, 2015

The Week That Was... October 11-17, 2015 (Featured Image)

Last Updated: January 16, 2021

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes

I struggled a lot with this week’s The Week That Was, trying to get in the right headspace to write on everything that happened. These seven days weren’t extraordinarily good nor bad — with how hectic my life usually is, you could even call them tame. I burned through page after page trying to get it right, but I couldn’t get it flowing as I wanted — a story worth reading for an audience that expects as much of me as I do of myself wasn’t within grasp, no matter how much I hustled.

But just because something’s hard doesn’t mean you don’t do it — sometimes you need to find another approach to getting your story across!

The Week That Was... October 11-17, 2015 — TTC Subway Delay — Toronto — Bloor-Yonge Station
I mean, seriously — when some of your mornings start like this, would you want to write about it???
CONTINUE READING: A week full of turkey, biking and bat flips! The best of October 11th-17th! “The Week That Was… October 11th-17th, 2015”

#100HappyDays — Five Days in the Life of Casey Palmer, Father Blogger

#100HappyDays — Days 32-36 — My Sock Story — Socking Behaviour Socks — Bugatchi

When Sarah got me doing the #100HappyDays, I thought it’d be a good exercise to teach me how to write shorter posts, giving my readers a break from the lengthy novellas I usually write.  A daily picture with a short description — not that hard, right? Except that all too soon, I’d lapse back to my old habits, and contextualized them with lengthy stories instead of posting pictures that simply spoke for themselves (a thousand words and all)!

It worked well enough until I just didn’t have the energy to keep it up.

With enough real-time stuff to keep me busy (visiting my parents in Mississauga, celebrating a friend’s birthday and having company over); side projects to work on (archiving old drawings at 1200 dpi so I can resurrect my Fish ‘n’ Chimps webcomic, marathoning through Seinfeld and playing this stupid game); and of course, the stuff that pays the bills and keeps my family flourishing (spending time with Sarah and our son, writing for The Hooray Collective, PTPA and other clients, and — of course — the 9-5), the weekend got away from me, the blog posts I planned to write fleeting with it.

But stumbling blocks only last forever if you let them win, and my blog posts won’t write themselves!

Welcome back, Mr. Palmer — it’s time to get your blog on!

CONTINUE READING: Five days filled with antics, food and more words than you could shake a stick at! “#100HappyDays — Five Days in the Life of Casey Palmer, Father Blogger”

Buytopia.ca | Toronto Blue Jays | Take me out to the Ball Game

The Jays watching their game.
Courtesy of Keith Allison via a Creative Commons License.

Escobar signs a ball and asks Patrick Burke to give it to me.

My Dad loves baseball. I don’t know whether it’s something hearkening from his days in Jamaica or a burning desire to show patriotism in his later life as a Canadian, but he’s fiercely followed the progress of the Toronto Blue Jays for as long as I can remember.

There must’ve been a time where sports played a greater role in my life as well; I remember one birthday where I was thoroughly excited that I was going to a Jays game with my Dad — on the 100 Level of the SkyDome, no less… the good seats.

I know there’re likely several Torontonians out there still reeling from the  Stanley Cup slipping through the Maple Leafs’ fingers for the 46th time — but never fear, baseball’s here!

CONTINUE READING: Why I’m down for a Jays game and a deal from Buytopia! “Buytopia.ca | Toronto Blue Jays | Take me out to the Ball Game”