3 Replies to “Oddments For The Weekend”

    1. 1973.
      l get a telegram from my gf in Hong Kong.
      she’s pregnant, what to do?
      l call. l panic. abort the thing l declare.
      hang up and have the biggest instant turnaround in my life, and send
      a telegram back, to whit take care, lm good with it. see you both when you get back.

      the child grows into the wisest, caring tween lve ever met.
      and earns an ontario scholarship and wins the writing prize in her hi school graduation.

      it would have been the single worse-than-all-the-rest-combined colossal blunder in my life.

      it aint all ‘cut and dried’ like the ‘pro-choice pro-death’ clamour would have it.

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