Gingers and Wry is frequently hilarious, occasionally poignant, and consistently honest—sometimes, brutally so.This book is a collection of quips and comments, originally posted online, threaded together by a narrative that describes four years in the author's life as he moves from being laid off, and into his new role as a stay@home Dad for twin boys.It humorously documents the challenges and rewards of raising two tenacious toddlers and an opinionated teenaged daughter, a...

Historical subsistence has received a great deal of attention in the literature of recent years, yet it is still relatively misunderstood, particularly in respect to the 19th century North American immigrant. The interpretation of zooarchaeological remains have proven useful in contributing to the overall knowledge, but the analysis of faunal material is often mediocre because quantitative units are ambiguous, and the impact of taphonomic forces on the survival of skeletal remains is uncle...

If you're new to the story, let me catch you up on the journey already in progress…I'm Dwayne. Currently, I'm an artist and writer, but it wasn't always that way. For many years, I was a single-father for a precocious young girl while I worked from home for a large computer company. Then, things changed. Literally overnight.I met an amazing woman and fell head over toes in love. In a matter of a year, we were married and expecting twins, but it's the precise manner in which...

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, 2035Sixty-seven-year-old Josh Donegal had spent months preparing for this.He thought that he'd anticipated everything that could possibly go wrong with his daring underwater escape from the autocratically-ruled Island, only to have it all go south for the unlikeliest of reasons.What saves him might just be what stops him as well.NEW YORK CITY, 1985Seventeen-year-old Josh Donegal was not prepared for this.Everyone fantasize...

It's 1985, and Josh Donegal is seventeen … again. And he's not alone.Somebody has made changes to the era that Josh grew up in and he's thinking that it's a message that can help him stop a future cataclysm before it even happens. But first, he has to decode it, not just for himself and the girl he left behind, but for the future of humanity.

"Revelations of a Secret Brotherhood" is the second part of the twelve-part "Obsidian Fire" serial, a superhero style adventure that is heavily inspired (admittedly on the verge of plagiarism at times) by the Arthurian legend of the Sword in the Stone.The saga is told almost entirely from the point of view of a reluctant sidekick, who must watch as somebody else gets thrust into the role of the hero. Together, the two join forces with the members of an ancient Brotherhood to battle...

It's 1985, and Josh Donegal is seventeen again … and he's being watched.Josh has decoded a message from the future, but he's about to find out that there's a group that doesn't want him to follow the clues it's pointing to. That's not his biggest challenge though. He still has to figure out how to tell his parents that he's leaving and how to say goodbye to the girl he left behind the last time.

Two time periods, fifty years apart.One, a dystopian future, and the other, a strategically altered past that holds the key to stopping a Global holocaust from happening again.Escape from Tomorrow is the fourth book in the The Anachronistic Code, an epic eight-part time-travel mystery series told in dual narrative streams, each one set in a different era.In one time stream, sixty-seven-year-old Josh Donegal is living under authoritarian rule on Prince Edward Island i...

This is a collection of close to fifty image quotes and typographic posters illustrating passages that were either originally presented in, or have been newly inspired by, my book Gingers & Wry. The images gathered for this collection are funny, thoughtful, inspirational, and are perfect for sharing on social media. This book also includes a bonus chapter from Gingers & Wry.The quotes presented here run from dry:"If you're alone on the road less traveled, ask yourself', 'Why...

It's 1985, and Josh Donegal is seventeen…AGAIN.Josh has shifted back in time some fifty years and he doesn't know how, much less why. What's more, he's noticing temporal anachronisms—minute changes that would only be obvious to somebody who had lived through the 80s before.Is Josh alone? Is somebody trying to send out a coded message?He's going to have to find all the changes to figure it out.

"The Cave of the Sleeping Sword" is the first part of the twelve-part "Obsidian Fire" serial, a superhero style adventure that is heavily inspired (admittedly on the verge of plagiarism at times) by the Arthurian legend of the Sword in the Stone.The saga is told almost entirely from the point of view of a reluctant sidekick, who must watch as somebody else gets thrust into the role of the hero. Together, the two join forces with the members of an ancient Brotherhood to battle a thr...

Watercolour artist and author Dwayne James lives in Peterborough, Ontario where he writes and paints as often as he can, that is when he's not spending time with his young daughter, toddler twin boys, and his very forgiving wife.Dwayne has a Masters Degree in archaeology, something he claims is definitive proof that he knows how to write creatively. "Indeed, the most important skill I learned in university," he posits, "is the ability to pretentiously write about myself in the third...