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author Mike Camp

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Mike Camp feels he has been privileged to have been involved in a number of different occupations during his working career. These include: welder, blacksmith, carpenter, boat builder, logger, commercial fisherman, art teacher, wilderness fur trapper, hard rock miner and homesteader.

During this same period, he has maintained a serious committment to the arts of both painting and sculpture.

These experiences are the raw material from which his books are forged.

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Table of Contents

5 Author's Note

11 Poems

11 Love Stories

12 One More Time

13 A Single Line

14 I Made It Through

15 Mari's Visit

17 Be Careful With That Letter

18 Number 10

19 I Bid You Goodbye Most Reluctantly

20 If You Can Find

21 To Nicole

22 Will You Never Leave Me?

23 Never Once Did I Dance With You

24 Nature

25 The Slaughter of the Innocents (Christmas&emdash;1995)

27 Springtime

30 Hands

31 One Gallon of Hot Water

32 What Did You Do Before You Were Born?

34 Homesteader Blues

36 My Silent Friend

37 I Really Miss

38 Bears

38 Barbara's Bear Encounter

39 Tortured Waters

41 My Little Cabin

43 Religion

44 2025 A.D.

46 A Child's Prayer

46 You Promised

47 For Christopher Hitchens

48 Christmas Prayer, 1992

49 I Saw Christ Hitch-hiking

50 One Small Request

51 A Special Occasion Prayer

52 Cast Away

53 Greed Is Good

54 Everything Else

55 The Quebec Ice Storm (1998)

56 In Memory of John Barry

58 I'm Afraid

59 The Cup of Cappuccino

60 Henry's Carriage

61 I Hate All Music

62 The Brown Bean Crock

64 I Got Me A Gold Claim In The Yukon

66 Middle Class Angst

68 Why The Tears, Prime Minister?

71 Pet Peeve Rap

72 I Like Writing Poetry Best

73 Plays

74 The Night the Devil Came to Tea

95 The Last Logger

121 The Day God Applied for an Earth Destruction Permit

130 Essays

131 Gun Control 101

134 Religion 101

138 Boat Design 101

142 The Frugal Homesteader

144 Flintlocks and Snowshoes For Fun

151 Building A Custom Muzzle Loader

157 The Camp Cook Stove

160 The Perfect Hunting Knife

163 A Cure for Baldness

164 City Life

165 Ducks-R-Us

166 Forty Virgins

167 Fried Brains

169 Geriatric Anti-Abortionist

170 His and Hers Retirement Cabins

172 Senior Soldiers

174 Impressions of Italy

175 Let's Close All the Jails

176 Let's Legalize Prostitution

178 On Being an Artist in Canada

180 Some Native Thoughts

183 The Five-Year Marriage Contract

184 The Handmaid's Tall Tale

184 Covid-19: The Earth's Best Friend?

186 Two Mathematical Contemplations

187 Wilderness Dreams

192 Short Stories

193 Road Rage

197 The Old Trapper Meets the Angel of Death

202 Paintings

203 Teslin Lake

204 Seal River

205 Gale Warning

206 Sandy Creek

207 Vargas Island

208 Small Creek

209 Leaf Rapids

210 Saltspring Island

211 Ginger

212 Mari's Galaxy

213 Sculptures

214 Dawn

215 Christine

216 Raven Lady

217 Inukshuk

218 The Dancer

219 Pickerel

220 Spitfire

221 Surfer Girl

222 Slapshot

223 Carousel Horse

223 Buffalo

224 Howling Wolf

225 Other Projects

226 Diorama

226 Rocking Horse

227 Blacksmith Shop

227 Commemorative Knife

228 Fur Trapping Class

228 Tent Cabin

229 Traditional Log Tipi used by the James Bay Cree

230 Beachcombing

230 New Cabin

230 Beachcombing

231 Two Birchbark Canoes

232 Cabin Raising

232 Dunedin River

233 Two Boats

234 Guitar

234 Flintlock Shotgun

235 Homemade Skidoo

235 Wood Cook Stove

236 Dog Team

236 Forging

237 Cedar Shakes

237 New Log House

238 Two Fish

239 Two Bears

240 Videos

240 Good Writers Compared to Great Writers

240 Postscript

Sample Pages

Confessions of a Handyman

ISBN: 978-1-927541-45-6
no longer available.

Tales of a Handyman

ISBN: 0-920225-03-9
no longer available.