"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
~Winnie the Pooh
~Winnie the Pooh
Al Martinez, Pulitzer Prize Winning columnist, writes his last column
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SMALL WONDERS: Overkill
Don’t venture under the bed lightly. More than wild things await you there.
I did not long ago and got more than I bargained. Among the picture frames, lost socks and dust brontosaurs, I came across a collection of cassette tapes. Remember cassettes? Before CDs and after 8-Tracks? Those things that, once warbled and snagged in the player, were tossed from car windows in streams of festive, brownish-gray ribbon lining the freeway in a symbol of urban angst? They were in a handy crate, the kind we kept in our cars to hold the entirety of our mobile music libraries; an anthology that now fits on a silicon chip the size of an atom in an iPod. And in this crate was a brief glimpse of my youth: Night Ranger. The Police. Genesis. Toto, and more. The 80’s called and I answered by... 
SMALL WONDERS:
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LA Press Club 2012 SoCal Journalism Awards Winner!
Patrick Caneday's weekly "Small Wonders" column received third place for best column (under 50k circ.) in the LA Press Club's 2012 SoCal Journalism Awards. In addition, a "Small Wonders" column about Ernie Lind, a longtime barber in Glendale, CA., received third place for best personality profile.
"Small Wonders" runs every Saturday in the Glendale News Press and Burbank Leader . 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner
"CROOKED LITTLE BIRDHOUSE: Random Thoughts on Being Human" Finalist General Non-Fiction 
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 ABOUT PATRICK
Patrick Caneday is the award-winning writer of the Small Wonders column appearing in the Burbank Leader and Glendale News Press newspapers each Saturday. His writing has also been featured on The Good Men Project and Huffington Post. His award-winning book, "Crooked Little Birdhouse: Random Thoughts on Being Human" is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle. Patrick was raised in Glendale, CA and now lives in Burbank. He has worked in the entertainment industry as a post production coordinator, supervisor and executive for almost 25 years. He's not a journalist or trained writer. He's just a working stiff and parent trying to make sense of fatherhood, culture, society and himself. |
