Oh my god, this book I'm reading is one of those ones that are so good you wish another person were always reading it over your sho...

I got something here for you but didn't get it into the mail in time. I'll have to give it to you when I see you next weekend! ...

Hope it cheers me up soon...

If daily life is a school wherein we learn how best to navigate daily life, there's something suspect about the whole setup, beyond it...

One's mother incarnates and models the archetype of life. Though fathers contribute their chromosomal heritage, the mother is the place ...

Desiree My love for you is not a noble love: It rides on sorrow — loud, distracting, real In all but root — and takes advantage of ...

Spring is finally upon us. Feeling inspired by all the colour and shadows, I've been taking more pictures with my phone lately. I...

Now with new songs!

A hundred and fifteen years young.

I have a questionable habit of relating everything that happens in my life to some song lyric or other. Got it from my mom. Sometimes it...

Here's a sneak preview of a story I wrote for my friend KC's monthly coffee newsletter, Concrete News . It'll show up in print...

Aaah! Just realized I'm going to miss Record Store Day on Saturday, as I'll be flying to Ontario to visit my family. Of course, I...

Had this email exchange with an old friend last week. We hadn't talked in years, so of course there were many catching-up details to...

"Music… is not simply a distraction or a pastime, but a core element of our identity as a species, an activity that paved the way for m...

I went to see the latest Wes Anderson movie a couple of times in the last week. If you haven't seen it, you'll be happy to lear...

I've been unsuccessfully scouring YouTube for years now in search of a half-remembered  Sesame Street segment where a kooky jazz woman ...

Today I saw a twenty-something, otherwise fashionable young woman walking down Barrington Street in a pair of jeans that were loose enoug...

The fascinating principle underlying Zen stories with all their seemingly irrelevant remarks is quite simple. It is all explained in the Sut...

You know what's not really a very funny thing to say to a stranger on an elevator when you've both just come out of the cold wind...

Lately I've been having a lot of dreams. I can tell I've been having them, even though it seems I remember about 10% of them. The...