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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
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Confessions of a Handyman ISBN: 978-1-927541-45-6 |
Tales of a Handyman ISBN: 0-920225-03-9 |