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Not that long ago while in a bar on Queen Street I met a middle-aged guy who told me he was a Slam Poet. Not that surprisingly, he was alone and drunk, and in no time he was offering to share some of his work with me. He leaned toward me, his eyes slight glassy,…

Typically, when we told a cab driver or somebody at the airport that we were heading to Rethymno, we would get a response along the lines of: “Ah, Rethymno, my father came from there.” “Ah, it is the third largest town in Crete.” “Ah, Rethymno, it is really making an effort!” Along the beach strip…

Positano, on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is almost impossibly beautiful. Cut into the mountain, the village looks out over a coast line that seems that it should be populated exclusively by movie stars, supermodels and Russian oligarchs. While Rachelle took a break from the beach one afternoon and did some shopping, I stayed put.…

Overly elaborate in our attire, self-conscious of the culture of fashion we imagined inhabited the city, we wandered the streets of Rome looking for a restaurant a friend had recommended. TV antennas, like beacons to the modern world, dotted the rooftops of squat, antique apartment buildings, their wires falling down the facade and disappearing into…

While Rachelle and I were trying to figure out what we were doing at the Termini Metro station in Rome, a man popped up to help us. Middle-aged and dressed in a mishmash of found objects that almost gave him the appearance of a hipster, he began to enthusiastically point to spots on the map…

On Sunday, when Rachelle and I were it the airport in Toronto waiting for our flight to Italy, we happened to see underachieving Toronto Raptor Andrea Bargnani. He was standing at Alitalia’s Magnifico counter, which caused a tittering amongst the rest of us watching admiringly from the serpentine line stretching out from Economy. Even though…

Many people don’t know this about me but I am a gifted reader of Tarot Cards. I have to admit that my powers of prophecy make me a little nervous and so I rarely use them, but I thought that today I would make an exception and do a special reading on account of the…

I suppose that since I’m married now, my attitude toward the world around me has changed a little bit. There just seems to be a little less reason to interact with it, a little less reason to look for potential within people. I mean, I’m taken now, so what’s the point? That’s right, there is…

I took our Miniature Dachshund out for her walk about an hour ago and she ran frenzied and happy the entire time, like she had never had the opportunity to test her legs before and might never again. The ball we use to play “fetch” was pretty much an after-thought. Heidi just sprinted around the…