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June 29, 2025
158 Years of Canada
In two days, Canada celebrates its 158th birthday. To put that into perspective, the oldest country in the world, in terms of self-sovereignty is Iran with a birthdate of 2600 BCE. In contrast, the youngest is South Sudan (2011).
Canadians had a reputation of being polite, apologetic, and quietly patriotic.
“Had?”
Recent events have changed how we see ourselves, becoming more outward in our touting of Canadian culture and values. I’ve seen more Canadian flags being flown on homes and businesses than in the past and shoppers are bypassing American products in the stores when possible. I’ve seen a very clever marketing campaign called “Bye American, Buy Canadian.”
Now, We can’t possibly grow and manufacture every single product we need at an affordable price. No country can. That’s why we have cross border trade. I’ll say that again. That’s why we have cross border trade. Oh yeah, he’s not listening…
If there is any plus side to the fat orange leader’s policies it is that it has become the catalyst for trade diversification, the lifting of intra-provincial trade restrictions, and a renewed patriotism.
Trips to the US from Canada have dropped for five consecutive months with 40% less over the months in 2024, and other countries are avoiding the US as well which will cost US tourism and estimated 12-15 billion dollars in 2025.
Many of those Canadian tourist dollars will more than likely stay in Canada this summer as travelers stay close to home, which will generate much needed revenue.
Did I mention we are good at holding grudges?
When all this is over in 4 1/2 years, It will take time to rebuild the relationship we have had with our southern neighbours. Whoever is the next leader of the US will have a monumental task ahead of them, not just mending wounds to the north, but across the globe.
So, for the next few days I’ll be entertaining you with facts and funny about Canada, so stay tuned!
-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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June 28, 2025
Weekend Wrap-up June 28: Where did the time go?
I had all these things to do today and I ran out of daylight. I needed those seven extra minutes that we had on the 21st. So, you ask, what is time? Does time exist? Of course it does. If it didn’t, I wouldn’t be getting all these parking tickets.
How do we measure time? A long time ago (more than a few years) scholars were pouring over calendars, trying to figure out how to remember which months have 30 days and which have 31. They decided upon the rhyme:
“Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November. All the rest have 31
except February, which has 28 except on years that have the Summer Olympics.”
There was a lot of debate on whether to use hath or has, but the vote of 21-3 sealed the deal (or is it dealth?).
Now how to divide each day into easily measurable sections…
The day way originally divided into 10 parts (because of fingers) and the night into 10 as well (toes of course), and it was suggested that people keep track by tying string on each digit as the day progresses. But there was a problem—they quickly ran out of string and only a select few were able to tie knots one-handed.
They then decided on burning candles to mark the passage of time, but since Dollar Store candles burned quicker, everyone started using them during marathons, leading to some amazing times.
Frustrated with the lack of progress—not to mention all the wax everywhere—Italian inventor Leonardo DaCasio locked himself in his workshop and didn’t emerge until he did, with the first ever wristwatch with a calculator in it, which unfortunately could only be used by people with really small fingers.
And that, my friends, is a brief history of time*.
-Leon
*Not a reference to Stephen Hawking’s book, so don’t sue me.
In case you missed my blog:Weekend Wrap-up June 28: Where did the time go?Just for Fun Friday: The 4th Self-interviewThursday Thoughts: Fact or Funny?Weird Wednesday: Dropping the F-bombTuesday Tirade: AI SlopHope you enjoyed the recap! Feel free to share it with others.
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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June 27, 2025
Just for Fun Friday: The 4th Self-interview
In 2021, I had nothing else to do (because of that whole Covid thing. Remember that? Of course you do…) I had already published one poetry book and a collection of short science fiction stories and they were selling like hotcakes.
Hotcakes? Really?
Well, I sold one or two, so I decided to put the Economies of Scale theory to the test and write another book. And of course, with another book comes another self interview. So from 2021:
The Very Fourth One: Leon Stevens Interviews Leon Stevens (yet again)Whatcha doin’?
Not much, you?
Same. Working on anymore interviews?
I have two scheduled in January, but nothing right now.
We haven’t done one for a while either. Maybe we should?
Who will interview whom?
Rock, paper, scissors?
You’re on!
[in unison] Rock. Paper. Scissors.
Rock
Rock
[in unison] Rock. Paper. Scissors.
Rock
Rock. Why do you always pick rock?
Nothing beats rock.
Paper does.
Does it now? Again then.
[in unison] Rock. Paper. Scissors.
Paper
Paper
This isn’t going to work, is it?
Not if we keep picking the same thing.
What if we pick the one who has done something interesting?
Sounds fair.
What did you do?
I read a book. You?
I wrote a book.
Well, well. Aren’t you fancy …
In Conversation With: Leon Stevens
I’m hanging out with author Leon Stevens. I just heard you wrote a book.
[whispering] You are supposed to offer me a beverage.
Oh yeah, I forgot. Would you like a beverage?
No thanks, I’m good.
[silence] . . . Sigh, really? . . . Why don’t you tell me about your book?
Well, it’s a continuation of one of my short stories from—
The Knot at the End of the Rope. Yeah, I read it.
I know you read it—wait . . . How did you do that?
Do what?
Speak in italics.
I don’t reveal my secrets. Please, continue. Why continue a story?
Many of my stories, like a good short story, tend to end leaving the reader to think or to ponder about what may or may not happen.
Like a cliff hanger?
No, more like an open ending. Some readers commented that some stories left them wanting more, which was my intent, but the more I thought about it, the more ideas came to me.
So why continue The View from Here?
You have to teach me how to do that.
Later. Go on.
Anyway, I never felt I wrapped that story up effectively. Sure, I created a natur—
Hey, no spoilers!
I don’t think I’m giving anything away. Anyway, I changed the ending of the short story to allow it to continue.
You can do that?
Sure. I’m the writer.
Cool. So . . . not a short story then?
Nope. It’s my longest yet, 30 000+ words. So, it’s a novella.
Do people read novellas? Doesn’t that just make you a lazy novelist?
Books don’t have to be long epics to be good. Some of the greatest books are novellas.
Right. Name five.
Umm, sure. Be right back.
[silence]
Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, Slaughterhouse Five, A Clockwork Orange, and The Call of the Wild.
Did you just Google that?
Maybe. But you have to admit, those is some fine readin’.
Yeah. You’re right. Are you happy with it?
Yeah. I think I wrote a pretty good story. And a cool cover. Want to see?
Sure!
Nice. Have you stopped writing poetry then?
Stopped? No. Slowed down? Definitely. I think poetry comes from many places but is always sparked by an intense emotion. Maybe I’m in a level emotional state right now. I’m working on putting all my latest poems into a collection called, A Wonder of Words.
You mean, A Wonder of Words.
Show off.
Care to share a poem?
Sure. Here’s the title poem:
Very nice. Reminds me when as a child I learned that a bunch of crows was called a ‘murder’. I thought that was pretty cool.
And a parliament of owls. Yeah, that was the catalyst for it.
Got a cover yet?
Tentatively. Here it is:
[Ding]
Pizza’s ready.
That’s good because I was getting hungry and bored. Let’s eat.
I thought you were going to show me how to do that italics thing?
It’s all in the control. i will show you later.
What’s with the lower case—oh, I get it! Nice!
Nice. Now let’s eat before it gets cold.
-Leon
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Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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June 26, 2025
Thursday Thoughts: Fact or Funny?
I’ve been blogging for seven years, which isn’t a long time. The first blog was started in 1994 by Justin Hall on his site Links.net. I’ve been cynical, satirical, and sometimes informative, but always try to be entertaining to the few who actually read it (Thanks, BTW).
Current events are something to refer to when trying to decide what to write about, and since politics are always in the news, it’s only a matter of time before someone is going to make fun of something that a politician does.
Being Canadian, it would make sense to poke fun at our leaders, but in all honesty, they just are not as entertaining as the ones down south. And when I say “the ones” I really mean THE one.
A search of my blog showed very few posts mentioning Joe Biden. During his term, late-night hosts poked fun at his age, rambling stories, the aviator glasses, tripping up the stairs, falling of a bike, and near the end, his declining mental capacity.
But he doesn’t come close to the current leader who feeds us constant fodder to make jokes about, and as a self-proclaimed humourist* I have to go where the jokes grow. I always try to include facts with the funny, and I know you can tell the difference.
I hope you don’t grow weary of the homogeneous content, I would be extremely pleased if I didn’t have anything to satirize about the current US administration, but we all know that’s a pipe dream.
How do I know that? Well, his recent whine is that he thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, but that’s a whole other story…
-Leon
*Today I am using the Canadian/British spelling out of patriotism, but I usually revert to American conventions (as I do in my books) since the majority of my readers are in the US, and it’s also a way to get out of paying tariffs.
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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June 25, 2025
Weird Wednesday: Dropping the F-bomb
“They have been fighting so long they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing.”
Yes. That’s what he said to reporters yesterday. In frustration? More than likely. I guess he is realizing diplomacy isn’t that easy and and you can’t just say something on a social media post and everyone will fall in line.
“Even if you Capitalize random WORDS?”
Yes. Just because the presidency is the most powerful position in the world doesn’t mean you have the ear of the entire population.
So, is the use of profanity by a public servant acceptable? Yes, it can express a strong opinion, extreme frustration, or anger, but it does just wind up sounding vulgar.
Here are some other instances of famous people dropping the F-bomb.
Herodotus: “Those pyramids are really f***ing tall!”Julius Ceasar to Brutus: “Why the f*** did you do that!?”The mayor of Pisa to Pisano: “You know it’s f***ing crooked. right?”Pisano to the mayor of Pisa: “F*** off.”Montezuma: “That’s a lot of f***ing ships.”Robert Falcon Scott: “It’s really f***ing cold.”Oppenheimer: “Ohhh, f***…”-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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June 24, 2025
Tuesday Tirade: AI Slop
It used to be clickbait, then silly—or mostly stupid—engagement questions on everyone’s social media feed, then obviously set-up videos of people ignoring an old lady trying to cross the street before eventually a young girl breaks from her mom and helps her across prompting 1000s of comments like “This is amazing!”, “I cried when I saw this.”, and “This restores my faith in humanity.” until finally someone says what I’m thinking: “Fake!”
The first clue is the person recording video. Shouldn’t they stop and help the poor old lady?
And what about all the ads for stupid gadgets from companies with names like Kina, Toter, Binga, Zepe, Mamo, etc?
And now it’s AI slop. You’ve seen it. The videos of dogs preparing supper, Jesus underwater with Aquaman, American factory workers sewing running shoes, and other obviously fake content.
Then there are the “news” stories. Hours after the plane crash in India last week there were several videos floating around showing various angles and theories. After every presidential press conference there are variations from funny to misleading posts in my feed.
I was going to look for examples but did not want to risk the algorithm thinking that’s all I want to see. I lingered too long on a dog video on Instagram and that’s all I get now.
Is it easy to create? WordPress lets you:
“Angry gray cat pens a sharply worded letter” was the prompt so now I don’t have to pay the angry cat I’ve been using all these years.
“I don’t like the sound of that…”There are other programs but I’m not willing to signup for free or pay to use it. I do use AI to do a quick graphic for my social media posts because I’m not going to look for a designer on Fivver and pay them to make an “Angry gray cat pens a sharply worded letter”.
Unfortunately, AI gets better every day and I does get increasingly difficult to darken the fake from the real, unless you are watching a Pomeranian preparing chicken parmigiana.
Then you know it’s real…
-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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June 23, 2025
Monday Muse: Going Nuclear
Should any country have a nuclear weapon? Probably not. Do people need guns? For hunting, sure. Target practice? Why not. Self defense? Well, because some people have guns and might use them, some people have guns so that those people might think twice about using them is the argument.
We are not going to be able to eliminate guns from our civilian society, and now that there are nuclear bombs out there it’s hard to get rid of them as well, although, when you look at the chart below, there are a lot less:
But 12, 121 remaining is still enough to do a lot of damage. And since some countries have them, others say they should be allowed them to, as evidenced by this real conversation:
“You can’t have that.”
“Why not?”
“It’s dangerous.”
“You have one and they have one.”
“But we had it first.”
“So?”
“You might use it.”
“But you did.”
“That’s different.”
“How?”
“It just is. We won’t use it again.”
“Right…”
-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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June 22, 2025
Songs for a Sunday: Sigh…
The “will he or won’t he?” question was answered yesterday, now the world waits to see what the ramifications of the decision will be. Can one person singlehandedly throw the world into turmoil? The last few months have answered that question.
Are any of these songs related to current events? Not really, but they are beautiful songs from Canadian artists.
Leith Ross is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Daniel Mangan is a Canadian musician from Vancouver.
Shubhneet Singh, known professionally as Shubh, is an Indian rapper-singer and songwriter based in Canada associated with Punjabi music.
Rosanne Millicent “Rose” Cousins is a Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Prince Edward Island, she is currently based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Patrick Watson is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Montreal, Quebec.
Colleen Aasiva Nakashuk, better known by her stage name Aasiva, is a Canadian Inuk singer-songwriter and educator.
-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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June 21, 2025
Weekend Wrap-up June 21: Get ready for a long day…(or a short one)
Depending on where you are, today you will experience the longest or shortest day of the year, brought to you by the makers of the universe.
Depending on what you believe, that could be any number of entities or forces, brought to you by the human brain.
So whatever you believe, enjoy this day!
-Leon
In case you missed my blog:Songs for a Sunday: Sigh…Weekend Wrap-up June 21: Get ready for a long day…(or a short one)Just for Fun Friday: The SolsticeThursday Thoughts: Group of Seven (Part III)Wednesday Top 10: Group of Seven (Part II)Hope you enjoyed the recap! Feel free to share it with others.
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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June 20, 2025
Just for Fun Friday: The Solstice
We don’t talk about Eratosthenes very much anymore other than to ask the questions “Who is Eratosthenes?” and “How do you pronounce Eratosthenes?”
In case you are wondering (which you are), it is pronounced eh·ruh·taas·thuh·neez (which still doesn’t help because its still damn hard to say).
Besides inventing the circumference of the Earth, he also invented the sieve of Eratosthenes, which is not a device to strain your noodles, but a method of finding prime numbers (Now a new game from Mattel, fun for the whole family!)*
Happy solstice, everyone! Here’s more about that guy:
[Originally posted on June 20, 2024]
One day in ancient times, Eratosthenes, a scholar at the University of Lyceum in Greece, decided to make a map of the world. The next day, he decided it was too much work and applied for a job at the new library in a little place called Alexandria.
King Ptolemy III, looked over the parchment with Eratosthenes’s credentials and said, “Meh. He’ll probably work for cheap.” And was hired.
One day—still ancient, by the way— Eratosthenes was sitting on the edge of a well eating his lunch (falafel, in case you were wondering), when he noticed something.
“Hey! I told them no onions! There’s onions in here!” he said angrily.
He plucked each one out and dropped them down the shaft of the well, when he noticed something else.
“Hey! There’s change down there!”
He looked around for a very long pole and some chewing gum. Half and hour later he had a handful of coins and was late for work.
The next day, out of a job, Eratosthenes went back to his little moneymaker. When he looked down, only to notice the sun was shining directly on the bottom, revealing to his disappointment that there were no more coins, only a few chicken bones. He stood and saw that his shadow was centered around his feet. “Interesting,” he thought, then shrugged and went to the employment office to look for another job.
Oh, he also used this information to calculate the circumference of the world to within 1000 miles. But that’s another story.
-Leon
*Oh you want the fun, do you? https://www.transum.org/software/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes/
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