From loud explosions to snide comments made at a cocktail party, the normal, human, universal response is to freeze. A couple of heartbeats are required…
One evening, circa 1975, my boyfriend was driving me home. We were having an enormous fight; I had talked to another man at the bar….
When my cousin Stuart was a kid he visited our Aunt in Toronto’s west end, circa 1960. She was a single, working, professional woman in…
If given a choice between losing your wallet or losing your cell phone, which would you choose? When was the last time you went a…
Nobody storms the Bastille with their mouth full. If Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette had had the insight to change the tax system to give…
I like clothing that serves me well for the long run. I don’t like purchases that are essentially a fling. In 2018 I bought a…
“Life is long. Youth is short.” Or so says a favourite character in Contentment is for Cows. Ahh, the joys of youth. All that energy,…
On impulse one evening I googled ‘short story contests Canada’. And guess what? The CBC short story contest is under way! The deadline for submissions…
Last weekend my family, including cousins, in-laws, offspring, plus ones, and other loose bits gathered for a large Thanksgiving celebration; the first of this kind…
A justification is a convenient cognitive process we use to excuse bad behaviour. People everywhere justify their actions all the time. Take for example the…