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The Weekly Post

Ten Years (Apparently)

December 29, 2025 CJ Bowers

A decade of writing, procrastinating, and deleting more sentences than I care to admit—celebrated slightly late because, of course, I forgot the date.

Tagged author, books, creative, Creative Writing, creativity, failures, forgetful, life, lose, mental health, struggle, time, triumphs, win, words, writingLeave a comment
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Stop Falling. Please.

December 15, 2025December 15, 2025 CJ Bowers

Everyone loves to talk about how beautiful snow is. But those people are not holding a shovel...

Tagged cold, futility, labour, life, magical, pain, romance, shovel, shovelling, snow, struggle, suffering, travel, weather, winter, workLeave a comment
Parenting, The Weekly Post

Parenting: Now With Bonus Parent-Like Behaviours

November 17, 2025November 17, 2025 CJ Bowers

My parents always warned me I’d “understand when I’m older.” Turns out “older” meant “the minute my toddler turned three."

Tagged age, chaos, child, children, father, help me, learning, older, parent, Parenting, son, struggle, wisdom1 Comment
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The Sound of Morning

November 9, 2025 CJ Bowers

A quiet remembrance for those who never came home.

Tagged conflict, contemplate, fight, peace, poppy, reflection, reflective, remembrance, remembrance day, soldier, struggle, thoughtful, war1 Comment
Reflections, The Weekly Post

Flickers on the Page

September 14, 2025 CJ Bowers

Some days, writing feels like whispering to the walls. The world barely listens. And yet, a sentence winks. A paragraph hums. A thought does a little dance. Those tiny sparks are enough to keep me at it — stubborn, stubborn, and happily so.

Tagged audience, discovery, frustration, struggle, why, writer, writingLeave a comment
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How Not to Write a Blog Post (Like This One)

August 10, 2025 CJ Bowers

Or: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Absolutely Nothing Done

Tagged author, distracted, email, plan, problems, struggle, tag, weather, what?, writer, writingLeave a comment
The Weekly Post

Through the Doubt

April 20, 2025 CJ Bowers

Some days I feel like I am an imposter...

Tagged confidence, doubt, failure, fear, frustrated, ghosts, learning, life, perception, sad, struggle, success, thoughts, worry, writer, writingLeave a comment
The Weekly Post

WestJet, What Happened to You?

March 2, 2025 CJ Bowers

Pack extra patience. You’re going to need it.

Tagged airline, airplane, airport, annoyed, cancellations, customer service, delay, disappointed, Fort McMurray, problems, struggle, travel, WestJetLeave a comment
Reflections, The Weekly Post

Unpracticed

December 1, 2024 CJ Bowers

You just keep going. You keep painting. Even if it’s a little messy.

Tagged acrylic, art, awkward, canvas, creative, fog, forget, forgotten, learning, life, life lessons, mist, paint, painting, reflection, struggle, trees, try, unpracticedLeave a comment
Creative Writing, The Weekly Post

Are You Not EntertAIned?!

August 11, 2024August 11, 2024 CJ Bowers

Max loved writing but had a peculiar problem: he needed help deciding what to write about. His desk was a chaotic jumble of half-finished stories…

Tagged artificial intelligence, chicken, Creative Writing, Fiction, funny, Grand Canyon, image, picture, rubber duck, story, struggle, unicycle, writer's blockLeave a comment

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