Edward Willett

Edward Willett is a writer and performer from Regina, Saskatchewan. More about Edward …

Hasenpfeffer: latest blog posts

• Boredom

  Everyone is bored sometimes. You find yourself at loose ends, with nothing to read, nobody to talk to, and maybe not even anything interesting to look at…driving alone from Regina to Saskatoon, for example.

  Yet science has carried out relatively little research on boredom. About four years ago, Richard Ralley, a lecturer in psychology at Edge …

• The Willetts on Wine: Wine – it’s what’s for dinner

  Continuing the run-up to the release of the spring issue of Fine Lifestyles Regina, here’s “The Willetts on Wine,” the wine column penned by my wife, Margaret Anne, and myself, from winter issue of FLR, in which it premiered. Eventually …

• Mike and Karla Sillinger have been everywhere…but Regina is home

  The Spring 2010 issue of Fine Lifestyles Regina, for which I’m the editor, is just around the corner. In honour of that, here’s my cover story from the Winter issue, which featured former NHL player Mike Sillinger.

  ***

  Mike Sillinger holds the …

• It’s on the tip of my tongue…

  Listen to the audio version

   

  How often has this happened to you?

  “So I was talking to…to…oh, you know, that guy, the one in the head office, big hair, bad teeth, only listens to Perry Como records…geez, why can’t I remember his name? It’s on the tip of my tongue!”

  It’s a common phenomenon, and it’s not just people’s names. Sometimes you …

• Terra Insegura is an Aurora Award finalist!

  Just heard this morning that Terra Insegura, my sequel to last year’s Aurora Award-winning science fiction novel Marseguro, is a finalist for this year’s Aurora Award for best science fiction or fantasy novel in English. Sounds like they had a …