Category Archives: personal

I’m not going to lie, when I left Gamesys, I was done. Done with permanent employment, done with “career paths” and “the promise of advancement.” I was angry, sad, and disappointed. I went back into contracting, sure that I would never go permanent again. It was a fool’s notion. A silly thought that I could […]

Hi there. It’s me, Liam. You might remember me from such times as that one Summer Blog Challenge, or the times that I’ve done other blog things. I’m looking around here, and it’s hard to make anything out through all the dust. I mean, that picture in the corner, it’s all faded from the sunlight, […]

Well, if that title doesn’t dissipate the cloak of humility I usually try to wear, I can’t imagine anything else would either. Now that it’s out of the way, I can get to what I want to say. I’ve meant to be a better writer than I am. I’ve meant to be more consistent in […]

It started, for me at least, with good feeling. I learned about Zoe’s Animal Rescue through a friend who was fostering one of their dogs. Kim was maybe, possibly interested in adopting him. I wasn’t incredibly against it either. We could give a dog a good home, especially since we’d moved out to the country. […]

We grew up playing countless games of street hockey, football, tennis, even baseball. I totally forgive him for breaking my nose with a baseball bat the day of grade nine graduation (mostly because it was totally my fault). Apart from sports, we’ve worked together on a lot of things: we’ve been writing partners, we’ve been […]

I was too young. Then, I had my head in the sand. I honestly believed that racism, hatred, and xenophobia were on the sharp decline. I thought that things like, y’know, gender equality, and acceptance of LGBTQ were, if not here, at least inevitable. I have to face it: I was naïve. I was doing […]

I’ve got something to say to all the people out there who keep saying that All Lives Matter and Straight Pride and White Power or white-specialist interest groups are not allowed to happen. You know, all you people who are physically threatening the diligent members of a hard-bitten downtrodden majority. If you’ve ever passed a […]

So, here we are, at the end of this blog series. I didn’t want to be writing this last post on my birthday, but hey, it’s getting written, and that’s what counts. It should go without saying, but if I don’t say it, I’ll always wonder if I should have. This list is by no […]

Ok, so like every other one of my #20toX blog series, I’ve fallen behind. How far, you ask? Well, thank you for asking. I really appreciate your concern. The truth is, the blog challenge is supposed to be over by Saturday night. It’s supposed to be 20 TO 40, not 20 while I’m both 39 […]