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As Heidi and I walked down the street, young university girls stopped to swoon over our Miniature Dachshund, playing with her ears and cooing, missing the dogs they grew up with and left home with their parents when they embarked for school. On Bloor we popped into a store that sold trendy, high-end environmentally friendly…

As many of you know Rachelle and I have been moving from our apartment in the east end of Toronto to one in the Annex part of the city, one that we actually used to inhabit just over two years ago. It’s a happy move, this, but it’s been a very hard one, and between…

Shoppers Drug Mart appears to be taking over the world. Everywhere I turn a new one seems to be materializing, rising massively from the land as if the realization of some biblical prophecy. In a constant state of expansion and growth, it’s my observation that Shoppers has a nearly impossible time acquiring decent employees. I’ve…

On Tuesday afternoon the sunlight was so thin and distant that it felt like early morning. As I took the dog for a walk through Yorkville we saw a woman of around 60 standing at the end of her driveway, her arms crossed, smiling. Another woman, a little bit younger but not by as much…

On occasion I like to answer some of my fan mail. Today is one such day. ****************************************** Dear Michael Murray: You’re a writer and a genius, so perhaps you can help me. Recently I’ve been feeling a little bit invisible in the world, and earlier today I had what I think the ultimate emasculating experience.…

As many of you know, I’ve been trying to win the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest for several months now, and for reasons that completely elude me, have yet to win, or even have one of my submissions nominated. This is insane. I’m crazy funny. Look at this caption, and then look at the three…

Rachelle and I just moved from the east end of Toronto to the very same apartment we used to inhabit in the Annex over two years ago. It’s a funny circle, that, but both of us are happy to be back in the place we consider home. Yesterday, as I walked our dog down the…

1 These are the text messages I sent to a friend of mine on the weekend: ****************************************** It’s the most gorgeous autumn Saturday I have ever seen in my life and I am in a traffic jam on the DVP on my way to Ikea with Rachelle and her mother. We’re looking for storage solutions.…

The other day while Rachelle and I were in the midst of moving from one apartment to another, I found myself on the phone with Bell Tech Support. The conversation went on for a long time. ******************** Tech: alkdlasgapabne[[oagbafsjg[[ag//dasb ps[? Me: I’m not sure. The internet connection still isn’t working. Tech: labkijpwut—0-b-29uagslb[[p?? Me: So, what…