Author Archives: Bev Vincent

Anger is always the shortest distance to a mistake

Will the Canucks do it tonight? Win the Stanley Cup for the first time ever and bring it back to Canada for the first time in nearly two decades? Their performance in Boston hasn’t been stellar so far, and they … Continue reading

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Five films

We had a movie binge weekend. In addition to watching Doctor Who (about which more later) and a Graham Norton rerun we saw: True Grit. I’ve never seen the original, not being a huge John Wayne fan. It’s hard to … Continue reading

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And a hockey game broke out

When I was a kid, Hockey Night in Canada was a mainstay of my Saturday nights. There was always a game and we always watched. So long as “my” team was winning, that is. If they weren’t performing well, I’d … Continue reading

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On a horse with no name

Houston set a record yesterday for the highest temperature ever seen in June: 105°. Not just for the day, for the entire month. We also heard thunder rumbling all afternoon, but that didn’t give us any rain. The rain did … Continue reading

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Days are numbers

If we had six fingers on each hand and had adopted a base-12 numbering system, today I would be 42. In binary, I’m 110010. Yes, it’s one of those dreaded “significant” birthdays. The kind that ends in a zero. And, no, … Continue reading

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Paging Madam Chairman

The long weekend is over and I feel like I got a lot accomplished. We cooked some great meals on the grill, though it was two flocking hot to eat outside (flocking is a euphemism I picked up from the … Continue reading

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Ain’t nobody here but us…

Wrote another thousand words of the story in progress and I have the rest all mapped out in my head except for one piece. One connection that the detective has to make and act on before the big reveal at … Continue reading

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Solved the mystery

One advantage of being in a drought: you don’t have to mow the lawn. At all. I mowed it once back in March or April to get rid of the shaggy look it had acquired over the course of the … Continue reading

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Does Red have some company?

Drought, day 180 (rough estimate). No relief in sight. Finally got around to watching the Criminal Minds finale. I thought from the opening they were going to riff on Matheson’s Duel, with a killer truck driver. Turns out the truck … Continue reading

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Co-starring a dog

Got a lot done on the novella in progress this weekend. I have until the end of next weekend to finish it off. Looks like I’ll make it after all. I’ve been away from it for a while, but when … Continue reading

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