Having a wonderful conversation while eating gamberoni and pizza on the patio at Terroni in Toronto may not be quite as thrilling as good sex, but it’s a close second. I’m just saying… Give me a thin-crust pizza from a wood-fired oven topped with grilled eggplant, a...
I’m supposed to be writing a memoir. After writing a couple of pieces in a Freefall workshop with Barbara Turner-Vesselago, one of the other participants generously offered to take my manuscript to her editor at a well-respected publishing house. I have about a...
We thought we could outrun, outsmart, and outdo what came before. We drove in our spikes and built our foundations, believing that we could get away with it. That our homes would stand. We were so certain we could pull it off, that we could just love, too. That we...
I love Alan Watt. Every newsletter he writes has me nodding and laughing and murmuring those sounds of recognition and delight. Each one is full of the wisdom of one who has been there again and again. And it always seems that the topic of the month is what I myself...
Sometimes an extremely dumb act can lead to profound breakthroughs in perception and awareness. Sometimes, you just chuck the goulash in the toilet and end up with a four-hundred dollar bill to Drain Rescue. And a long hard think about the value of home-owning. The...
