In last week’s post I had intended to give everyone fair warning that there would be no post this holiday weekend. It has been…
I attended the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) this weekend. TCAF is not a comic-con style convention where people dress up as their favourite obscure character…
Libraries are my favourite public institution. Where else can you go and borrow hundreds of dollars worth of goods, for free? Proof of a home…
Attention all Londoners! Right now, from April 25 to May 13, the fourth annual Tingfest is in full swing at the Arts Project, downtown London….
There is no playing six degrees of separation when it comes to cancer. For most of us, the experience of cancer runs close– more like…
Hands, after faces are probably the most expressive part of our bodies. I like hands. I notice hands. I often remember what ‘type’ of hands…
Typos are insidious, sneaky little things that invade our perfect sentences. Seemingly sly, a typo asserts itself, undetected by spellcheck, slipping under the radar of…
We apparently spend a third of our lives sleeping. Or, at least we are supposed to. Since the industrial era, sleep has been gradually viewed…
I have been on both sides of showing up for an appointment an hour early, and patiently waiting an hour. What most makes me question…
Years ago, (decades, to be honest), I was seduced away from my big, heavy, well seasoned, cast iron frying pans in favour of lighter, non-stick,…