Kendall Defoe
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Teacher, reader, writer, dreamer... I am a college instructor who cannot stop letting his thoughts end up on the page. No AI. No Fake Work. It's all me...
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Another New Year Tribute?
Almost missed the drop. 2025 is here! Please, I need a hug... * Thank you for reading! If you liked this, you can add your Insights, Comment, leave a Heart, Tip, Pledge, or Subscribe. I will appreciate any support you have shown for my work.
By Kendall Defoe about a year ago in Poets
A Look Back...Sort of...
It is one day before the last day of the year (New Year’s Eve Eve?) I am sitting at home – well, my old home – typing this out on my bed as I recover from my long day out trying to find some distractions in the places where I enjoyed my teen years (I mean the local mall, of course). My mother, recovering from a cold, is now forced to watch Monday Night Football with my stepfather and pretend to enjoy it. I have an old guitar, some Duolingo courses and plenty of books to distract me, along with another prompt for another story (over 500 words already written). And my mind is already racing ahead to what 2025 will bring. But let’s not forget the year we are about to lose…
By Kendall Defoe about a year ago in Journal
This Day...
From Christmas to a Boxing-Kwanzaa-Hanukkah Hybrid? Best to you...! * Thank you for reading! If you liked this, you can add your Insights, Comment, leave a Heart, Tip, Pledge, or Subscribe. I will appreciate any support you have shown for my work.
By Kendall Defoe about a year ago in Poets
The Last Week
A last-minute piece, but I think that I have something to say… It is the day before I fly home to see my family for the usual two-week spread in my old hometown. I am not looking forward to seeing anything related to the city (for the most part). I am much more interested in how time has changed all of us over the last time I was at home, attempting to enjoy the holidays at my least favourite time of the year. And then I remembered this challenge, right in the middle of laundry, packing and planning for the rides to the airport.
By Kendall Defoe about a year ago in Motivation
'A Complete Unknown' - A Review. Top Story - December 2024.
It was a very pleasant surprise to come home on the Tuesday of this past week and discover, over dinner and exams needing my evaluations, that I had won a pair of passes to see an early showing of the Bob Dylan biography, “A Complete Unknown”. It was the very next day – 7 pm on Wednesday at Banque Scotia Cinemas in Montréal – and I could not find anyone at the last minute to join me.
By Kendall Defoe about a year ago in Geeks
Deny, Defend, Depose...and Die?. Top Story - December 2024.
I am going to make the assumption that you have been following current events in the United States over the last week. I am going to imagine that you have some very strong opinions about what happened both on the streets of New York...and online. And I am going to assume that you will hear me out and accept my particular take on this (no trigger warnings necessary or provided).
By Kendall Defoe about a year ago in The Swamp
