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Today I have give the blog over to Heidi, our Miniature Dachshund for the day: ************************************************************** Dear Stupid World: Heidi very unhappy with you! You BAD DOG, BAD DOG WORLD! You slink off to corner and shiver, never be certain if get dinner again! Heidi hate your guts and want to rip them out and…

Yesterday I took my first yoga class in the history of my non-flexible life. I was in over my head, and after an hour of being improperly attired, gasping, wobbling dangerously and lurching about as if blindfolded, existing wholly out of synch with the rest of the class, two other students actually approached me to…

On New Year’s Eve Rachelle and I threw a dinner party for 13 friends. Instead of having each person stand-up and share a resolution for 2012, we asked that everybody write one down for someone else at the table. The idea was that we’d then jumble them all up in a hat and later read…

Most weeks I write a column, typically connected in some way to popular culture, for a web site called Pajiba. In one of my more recent pieces I conceived of a scenario at a dinner party where each guest was required to stand up and relate a Christmas memory that was for whatever reason, vivid…

After returning from Toronto to Ottawa after the Christmas holidays, my parents received this handwritten report from the Cat Sitter they had hired to look after their two pets: The Frito and Pippa Diaries December 24th pm Both cats were waiting in the hall on arrival. Frito and Pippa played the entire time I was…

In the lineup for the post office at the Shoppers Drug Mart a woman is making a radiant display of her baby. I’m not sure, but I think that the baby is wearing a Burberry jacket and this prompts me to make a remark, “She’s a stunner, it’s like she just stepped out of the…

Today I have given the Blog over to Heidi our Miniature Dachshund. ****************************************** Heidi have bit of a head cold last few days. Not feel like doing much. Heidi have very large sinus cavity and whenever chase squirrels everything slosh in Heidi face and hurt very much! Squirrels think they fast, but just Heidi not…

At the Annex Hodgepodge a large middle-aged woman sat at a table, her face glowing faintly from her tiny laptop. She had a sheaf of papers beside her, all marked with a surprisingly girlish script and it looked like maybe she was tracing her family ancestry, or at least, looked like a woman who might…

Christopher Hitchens has died, and although this was expected, it’s still a demoralizing shock. Weirdly, his death seems almost contradictory to me. He was not a man to bested. Cancer, even late stage cancer, hardly seemed a match for him. His back would stiffen, he’d stare it down, outthink the disease, take a sip of…