Category: Blog

The other day, in the midst of a heat wave, I took the dog for a walk. Along the way we passed a man standing knee deep in a dumpster that was sitting in the front yard of a home. From a distance he looked like maybe he lived in the house and was presiding…

Thankfully, I don’t have an addictive bone in my body. This is just one of my excellent qualities, and it’s come in very handy as last month I had major abdominal surgery for which I was prescribed Morphine, OxyContin and Percocet. Luckily, I hardly noticed that feeling of euphoria and peace that slowly washed into…

On Wednesday, Rachelle and I went to the Lula Lounge to see Mary Margaret O’Hara perform. When I moved from Ottawa to Toronto a few years ago, this was the sort of thing that I imagined I’d be doing all the time. But no, in spite of the myriad cultural opportunities that Toronto daily presents,…

The other day I received this email. Hello there, I am Chris Malvin from Salt Lake City. I want to buy a water hose and would like to know the types you have in stock. Get back to me with the types and prices so that we can go from there. Have a nice day…

Increasingly, I’m finding myself troubled by the “ground zero mosque” controversy. Instinctively, like a lot of people, like 70% of Americans, in fact, I don’t like the idea of building a high-profile mosque near ground zero. It just feels wrong to me, like a ham-handed statement of tolerance and inclusion, rather than an actual example…

Last week, while sitting in a parked car on Queen Street East, I saw a deer. It was an entirely surprising scene, one that was simultaneously sad and beautiful. It was on the north side of the street, trapped in a kind of corridor that had been formed by a construction fence bordering the sidewalk…

As I make a tremendous amount of money maintaining a Blog and managing several Fantasy Baseball teams, winning $26 million dollars on the Super Seven Lottery really wasn’t that big a deal for me. But did I do anything special? Sure. I wanted to spread the joy around, and so the first thing that I…

Almost two weeks ago now, I had surgery to correct something called a Hernia of Morgagni. It’s a rare condition, rare enough that my thoracic surgeon– who has been around– declared it “fascinating!!” In fact, it was so impressive and strange that he asked if he could show my x-rays while giving a lecture at…

Today I have given the Blog over to Heidi, our 3 ½ year-old Miniature Dachshund. ******************************************************* Four-eye-two-legged-treat-giver away in big castle full off sick people for long, long time! Heidi have to go without late night treat for ages! Cruel, very cruel! Nobody think of Heidi! When he come back to den, he move all…