Today started off with a funny feeling. I felt off. When I went to do my morning push-ups regimen, I was weaker than normal. Something wasn’t right. I got into Mac very well dressed with a neatly pressed polo and fine woolen black slacks, ready for an important meeting. However, when I checked my messages, [...]
It looks like men have had it. According to Hanna Rosin, in her article The End of Men, from The Atlantic Monthly, it’s women rule the roost and bring home the bacon. What’s a man to do? Many excuses are put forth about men’s failure to compete in school, in the marketplace and in the [...]
I like feasts like Mothers Day, because I get a chance to spend time with my extended family in a relaxed way. I like parties that focus on a person or a theme. They have a warmth and ease that regular get-togethers sometimes lack. If people have had a rough week, their trials can sometimes [...]
I spent today at my parents’ place in King City. My grandmother, who has been very ill for months, has finally come home from the hospital and is living with my parents. I passed most of the day with her. It’s strange to see her so fragile and powerless, challenged to even lift herself off [...]
I had a moving conversation today. One that made me realise that community is important. The day started normally. After a very late night of reading and writing, I work up late – at 9.30am. The sunlight woke me, streaming in through a slit between my heavy drapes, right across my face. I got up [...]
I picked up a gift from my grandmother today. A gift that she had given me money to buy a few years ago when I was granted tenure by McMaster University. She is terribly ill right now, perhaps in the beginning of a sad slow decline. In many ways, she was the person who raised [...]
I have had the worst cold that I have experienced in 10 years since Monday. My parents came over on Sunday night to help me clean my house. They like doing this, not because I am incapable, but it makes them feel they doing something productive, other than sitting around and visiting with me. I [...]
I did a very stupid thing early this week and lost someone I care deeply about. A person who made me dream, who unlocked my creativity. A kindred spirit. It has shaken me to the core. I am still reeling from from it today. It has been a rough week. This has pushed me to [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
[This piece was originally posted as a Facebook note on Tuesday, 04 August 2009 at 19:23] I spent the afternoon, a while back, at the Orange Alert Café, a pleasant, unassuming organic coffee spot kitty corner to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. I was there with a few friends, talking about the happy [...]
Thursday, November 5, 2009
(This was originally posted to my Facebook page as a “Note” on Monday, 13 July 2009 at 23:24) I recently had an unusual moment while sitting on a bench, at Lime Ridge Mall, in Hamilton, Ontario. It was the end of a long day and I was tired. I let my eyes close gently and [...]