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Blog entry from Heidi, Michael Murray and Rachelle Maynard’s Miniature Dacshund *********************************************** This year for Christmas Heidi want Guillotine death factory for mouse. Also want kit to build bomb to kill mouse that try to steal her food. For many nights, mouse live in den with Heidi pack. Heidi no invite mouse to be part…

In the hallway of the Park Hyatt Hotel, a tall and obese man with narrow, sloping shoulders walks toward the elevator. Slightly out of breath, he stands heavily by the doors, a crucifix hanging from his neck. A woman comes along after him, her socks matching her red sweater. As soon as she gets to…

As I stepped out onto Queen Street from my apartment, a little girl who was alone in a parked car spotted me and immediately locked her door. She smiled and waved, letting me know– in her way– that she was just following her parent’s instructions and not to take it personally. On the streetcar rumbling…

Last night, while returning home from the grocery store, I came across a piece of paper lying on the sidewalk. It had obviously fallen out of the pocket of a child who was returning home after school, as it said: My Wish List By Jennifer Jennifer had printed each letter with a different coloured magic…

Is a dog capable of sarcasm? You know, if you asked me that question a couple of years ago, I would have said no, but now that I have a disloyal and ungrateful dog, I believe that the answer to that question is yes. Last week, Rachelle’s sister Sommer stayed with us while she was…

  About a month ago, I wrote a letter to Alec Baldwin on behalf of my friend Shelagh Corbett. She was traveling to New Jersey to attend a court date (stemming from an incident at a nightclub on the Jersey Shore in the summer), and was hoping to get into Manhattan for a couple of…

The Road takes place under the blasted grandeur of a world once blue. The movie, portrayed by critics as relentlessly bleak, is actually beautiful to look at. Spare and gray, the landscape is a looming, awesome portent, one that suggests, rather than contains eternity. It was mesmerizing to look at, reminding me of the visual…

On Tuesday night, Rachelle and I went up to Younge and Eglinton to see the movie The Road. I was wearing a rather wide-brimmed gray Stetson, and as we walked down the sidewalk, a young Hasidic teen who was waiting for a bus approached me, ” excuse me, are you Jewish?” he asked. Slightly startled…

He’s interesting and handsome looking, like somebody you might have see on TV. He’s probably about 20 years too old for her, but it’s clear from the way she looks at him that she doesn’t’ care. Every day they sit together at The Dark Horse. She snuggles against him with her café au lait, while…