Larry Hnetka Goes HMmmm

I am fourth generation Canadian of Ukrainian ancestry. My great- grand- and parents assimilated in their new country. I never knew my paternal great-grandparents even existed never mind had a rich life in Canada.

Heritage of Pride
Pride Days are now celebrated throughout North America and many parts of the rest of the world. Lots of fun now but I remember walking on the sidewalk at one of the initial Vancouver Gay Parade in the late ’70s (the pride came much later.) A rag tag group of maybe 50 [...]

Here’s what the sorting hat decided I was! Scary old thing that I am!

Just did a quick Google search and there must have been hundreds of thousands of Things That Make Me Go HMmmm
So I’m not so clever as I thought I might be.
That the Mensa group’s newsletter is called HMMmm: the Newsletter of High Mountain Mensa is about the best HMmmm I’ve had in a long while.
Here’s [...]

(March 11/04)I got my bi-weekly shot of testosterone today. I’ve been getting the shots for about six weeks and they don’t seem to be doing anything - at least I don’t feel any different.
Aging is a complex and sometimes not all that pleasant event of life. Hot flashes (men get them too!), moodiness, and emotional [...]

Original poetry by Larry.

The Invention of Glass: a poem read out loud.

Original fiction. About the sound of footsteps in the apartment above.

Original poetry by Larry.

This graphic identifies an original creative nonfiction work I have written and posted in the Penned Category.
Bruce Dobler in the Creative Nonfiction Compendium provides the definition by which I would categorize my writing.
CREATIVE NONFICTION is that branch of writing which employs literary techniques and artistic vision usually associated with fiction or poetry to [...]