Author Archives: riverwriter

About riverwriter

Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else? wordcurrents is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wordcurrents/ Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.

Review: Tempting Providence by Robert Chafe

Biographical plays bring their own challenges, as I well know, having written one (A Song After Living, 1997), which caused its own murmurs in the theatrical circuit. Chafe’s play uses four actors to play a large group of characters, as … Continue reading

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wire fence

A snowblower is spouting high jets of snow and frozen dog shit from the vet’s parking lot up, up and away! over the fence onto the virgin snow of my neighbour’s back yard. Pockmarks pummel the smooth wind sculpted expanse … Continue reading

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grocery list

So often potatoes, bananas, bread and eggs butter, juice, veggies and an entré become a fascination: push a shopping cart trundle through aisles dodging other shoppers remembering the list: potatoes, bananas, bread and eggs butter, juice, veggies and an entré … Continue reading

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