With so much disheartening news I was tempted to write an opinion, to join the league of outraged liberals, to voice my indignation at the…
2025 will be the year I finally see my mother’s diaries published. The following excerpt is one of my favourites, from Sunday January 3, 1937,…
Two years ago I wrote about a young man who struggled to find his footing after starting grade nine at a new high school where…
Via Zoom, I meet with other groups of writers on a regular basis. One of these groups originally formed during Covid to aid and inspire…
Recently I walked through downtown Toronto with a new friend who was visiting from Cincinnati. A young man stopped me to ask, “What, in your…
Rue: (verb), to regret some act or course of action or fact about oneself and wish it undone or altered. After the recent U.S. election,…
If Mark Zuckerberg, or Jeff Bezos, were to walk into your home and start looking around; if they rifled through your belongings, observed your habits,…
For those of us who lived through the seventies, we might want to take a collective moment and remember how dark that decade actually was….
Three other aspiring writers and I have been writing a short story a month for Elegant Literature Magazine since April. We’re given a prompt and…
Travelling with cell phones and a laptop has changed what it means to travel alone. On my recent trip, I had contact with family and…