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Wearing Too Many Hats (and Writing Anyway)
There’s a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from context switching—jumping from writing fiction to analyzing sales dashboards to scheduling posts.
Writing from north of the noise
Essays, fiction, and protocol notes.
Speculative fiction, field notes, and experiments in open publishing. Exploring signals vs. noise, portable identity, and the future we can build together.
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BlogOct 28, 2025
I’m not a Patriot
Why don’t Canadians call ourselves patriots? Because our pride sounds different. Born from Loyalists, peacekeepers, and quiet builders, Canada’s strength has never been in shouting, it’s in showing up. From Confederation to Canada 150, our patriotism has stayed humble, civic, and collective. In an age of loud nationalism, that restraint isn’t weakness, it’s wisdom.
BlogOct 22, 2025
Chronicle #011: Post-Launch Signal Drift
It’s been a month since Pejorative left my desk and entered the noise. The algorithms have already decided who should see it and who should not. Every click feels like a vote of confidence, or a funeral rite.
BlogSep 11, 2025
Memoir Fragment #010: Uneven Dystopias
Dystopia isn’t arriving, it’s already here, just unevenly distributed. For some, it’s daily survival; for others, a new shock. This memoir fragment explores how silence becomes complicity, why endurance is not apathy, and how writing can stand as witness.
BlogAug 23, 2025
Dispatch #009: Guardrails
The road wound higher than I remembered, climbing through high hills with just enough guardrail to suggest safety. On one side, forested hills stretched into layers of green and shadow. On the other, a drop, sharp and unforgiving, reminded me of gravity’s patience. Above it all, a clear sky stretched like a promise.
BlogAug 7, 2025
Memoir Fragment #008: While the Cottage Slept
Coffee in one hand, edits in the other, the rest of the cottage still asleep.
BlogJul 29, 2025
Transmission #007: Red Marks & Heatwaves
Proof copy in hand. Red pen out. Beta readers circling. This book’s a risky one, fractured timelines, testimonies, and media scraps stitched into a story I hope makes sense outside my skull.
BlogJul 19, 2025
Dispatch #006: Chapter One, Take Two
Hit a wall, and tore it down. After finalizing layout and hitting the halfway point in edits for Pejorative, I circled back to Chapter One and knew it had to go.
BlogJul 11, 2025
Transmission #005: Between Edits and Empires
BlogJun 27, 2025
Dispatch #004: Signal Received, Doubt Pending
BlogJun 5, 2025
Dispatch #003: Smoke, Slogans, and the Signal Beneath
BlogMay 24, 2025
Memoir Fragment #002: Fall-in-May, Discipline-in-Chaos
May dressed up as November. Damp chill, grey skies, and the scent of fall. I stayed knee-deep in Chapter 20 edits while coffee pulled double duty, fuel and hand warmer. The world spun loud, but I stayed quiet. Some weeks, discipline isn’t loud. It’s just the act of showing up. One page. One fix. One sentence straighter than the last.
BlogMay 15, 2025
Chronicle #001: Fog Over the Week – Dispatches from the Threshold
Somewhere in the blur between code and fiction, I launched something small but personal: a direct storefront for my books. No noise, no gatekeepers, just my work, finally on my terms.