Hugh Cook 🇨🇦
@HughCook_ca
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Iowa Writers' Workshop grad. Order my novel HERON RIVER at your local bookstore. Contact me for editing your novel, stories, or memoir: [email protected].
Ancaster, ON
Joined December 2011
Christmas Eve in the Netherlands, where every year children light candles on the graves Canadian soldiers who liberated the Netherlands in '44-'45. Thank you Canada! 🇨🇦
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It’s 3 degrees Celsius (37.4F) and raining softly here in the great white north, and warm temperatures the last week have melted most of the latest snow. Might we have a green Christmas again this year?
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The only film footage of Mark Twain, filmed by Thomas Edison in 1909 at Twain's Connecticut home. https://t.co/2dXYQN4Yzd
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Lifted this from Facebook. Interesting comparison, given the relentless complaints about Canada lagging behind our neighbour economically.
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In the autumn of 1942, a slight, 32-year-old Polish social worker named Irena Sendler passed through the gates of the Warsaw Ghetto with a carpenter’s toolbox in her arms. Beneath the hammers and nails lay a drugged six-month-old infant, breathing softly, utterly silent. One cry
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Good night, dear Kindred Spirits and Magical Dreamers. Tonight I will leave you with The Little Skater by Rien Poortvliet.
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You say, “No horse radish with mine, please.”
You walk into Family Thanksgiving and see this instead of Turkey…. What are you doing?
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Liposuction.
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We shouldn’t have come.
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BEST YOGI BERRA QUOTES: 1. “It ain’t over till it’s over.” 2. “It’s deja vu all over again.” 3. “I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4.” 4. “Never answer an anonymous letter.” 5. “We made too many wrong mistakes.” 6. “You can observe a lot by watching.” 7. “The future ain’t
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Where’s the mop?
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If you're having a stressful day, read this. If you're not having a stressful day, read this. Pass it on for others to read. Kudos to Raymond.
"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces. But I see everything. Like the black sedan that circled the lot every
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There are three possible meanings here. You only CALLED the doctor instead of going to his office; the doctor is the ONLY one you called; or you called the doctor ONLY WHEN you were at death’s door. Why not say which one you mean? Where was the publisher’s editor here?
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The grammarian in me here, Most of the time, people, including acclaimed writers, misplace the word “only.” Here, by a prize-winning author of ten novels, in his latest novel: “You only called the doctor when at death’s door.” Which word do you emphasize when reading this?
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Why is Cal Ripken's record not on this list?
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