Recently, in my neighbourhood in Toronto, as part of a multi-year expansion of the much-neglected cycling infrastructure, the city installed bike lanes on both sides of a moderately-busy street named…
From Wikipedia’s entry on Ancient Geek Sculpture: By the early 19th century, the systematic excavation of ancient Greek sites had brought forth a plethora of sculptures with traces of notably…
Rebecca Solnit’s Easy Chair piece from the March 2016 issue of Harper’s discusses Jarvis Masters, who is on death row in San Quentin prison, with all the standard American tropes…
On 27 April 2013 I performed my first-ever stand-up comedy routine, at Lazy Daisy’s Café in Toronto as part of Erin Keaney’s MotherLoadTV.com Time Out! series. It went extremely well…
On my bicycle commute today I stopped along a trail for a moment – okay, it was to step behind some trees to pee – and I’d been listening to…
When you do get published, there comes before the typesetting of your work one of the many events of great vulnerability for a writer: the copyedit. The copyeditor won’t tell…
The methane feedback loop appears to be ramping up. Beckwith goes on to say, “This is abrupt climate change in real-time. Humans have benefited greatly from a stable climate for the last…
My family voluntarily pays more than we have to for our electricity and natural gas. This may seem a crazy notion – indeed, some of my neighbours have said…
My novel is again free for Kindle, January 21st. You can find a long excerpt here, or here’s a brief sampler: CHAPTER 15 “Your ETA was out by fourteen minutes,”…
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