• One Year and Three Days in a New City
    Nov 5 2024

    Wayne talks about the one-year anniversary of his move from Ottawa to St. John’s ▬

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    8 mins
  • Short Fiction, Long Life
    Oct 29 2024

    Wayne reads three of his works of short fiction ▬

    Source

    → Wayne Jones, "Short Fiction," https://www.waynejones.ca/writing/short-fiction/ || ▬

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    25 mins
  • Textured and Abstract Painting
    Oct 22 2024

    Wayne Jones talks to St. John's artist Emilee Hickey about her painting ▬

    LINKS
    Wicked Winds Art Studio (Instagram), https://www.instagram.com/wickedwindsartstudio ▬

    Wicked Winds Art Studio (Facebook), https://www.facebook.com/people/Wicked-Winds-Art-Studio/61550806900534/?mibextid=LQQJ4d ▬

    PAINTING
    From the Heart, painting by Emilee Hickey, https://photos.app.goo.gl/h2Tjx7rQTZPLzrnd6 ▬

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    18 mins
  • Dating When You’re a Senior
    Oct 15 2024

    Seniors still hope for love after the experience of never having had it or of losing it ▬

    Sources

    → Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, edited David Womersley. London: Penguin Random House, 2008. ||

    → Jones, Wayne. My Sam Johnson: A Biography for General Readers. William & Park, 2023. || ▬

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    11 mins
  • Where Is Home? What Is the Place You Love?
    Oct 8 2024

    I'm not attached to any one place, but I am attached to my friends

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    9 mins
  • I Feel Like I’m Changing
    Oct 1 2024

    SHOW NOTES ▬

    I’m changing partly because I am trying to tell the truth all the time ▬

    Source

    → Jordan B. Peterson. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote for Chaos. Random House Canada, 2018. || ▬

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    10 mins
  • The Killing Type
    Sep 24 2024

    An excerpt from my novel The Killing Type

    Source:

    → Wayne Jones, The Killing Type. 2015. William & Park, 2023, https://williamapark.com/index.php/the-killing-type/. ||

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    18 mins
  • How Do You Pronounce N-E-W-F-O-U-N-D-L-A-N-D Anyway?
    Sep 17 2024

    Accent on the first or last syllable; never the middle; and no mumbling ▬

    Sources:

    The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2nd ed., 2005, https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195418163.001.0001/acref-9780195418163. ||

    → Davy Holden [@davyholden]. “How to Pronounce ‘NEWFOUNDLAND’ for Dummys,” TikTok, March 8, 2023, https://www.tiktok.com/@davyholden/video/7208255890695212293?lang=en. ||

    → Introduction. Dictionary of Newfoundland English, edited by G.M. Story, W.J. Kirwin, and J.D.A. Widdowson, 2nd ed with suppl., 1982, https://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/introduction-page-four.php. ||

    → “newfoundland, n.” Dictionary of Newfoundland English, edited by G.M. Story, W.J. Kirwin, and J.D.A. Widdowson, 2nd ed with suppl., 1982, https://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/#3057. ||

    → “Newfoundland, noun.” Merriam-Webster Unabridged, 2024, https://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/unabridged/newfoundland. ||

    → “Newfoundland, noun.” OED: Oxford English Dictionary, 2024, https://www.oed.com/dictionary/newfoundland_n?tab=pronunciation#34723601. ||

    → Vocab Today. “How to Pronounce Newfoundland,” YouTube, Sept. 27, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrdNJah3A1c.||▬

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    9 mins