This is a paragraph I had to take out of the About page blurb I’m editing. I’m trying to go for “serious,” you see. Trying that out for style. For like when the big cheeses at the New Yorker decide to mosey on down to my blog (at Malcolm Gladwell‘s suggestion), and after being so [...]
One fallacy that gets a lot of play around my house is the idea that “going for a walk” helps me write. You know, walking: that wondrous activity that promotes oxygenation of the brain, loosening of the limbs and heightened alpha-wave activity in the occipital lobe whilst taking you further and further away from your [...]
As excited as I am to be crisscrossing Canada this summer – roaming up and down every corner of this majestic country – I was reminded yesterday, driving aimlessly down the Eastern Townships dirt roads of my childhood, that I come from one of the most beautiful places on earth. I guess it’s normal I [...]
Hell, for Adventist chain-smokers. (Inside a sunless stairwell at a Haitian Adventist church in Montreal’s Saint-Michel district.)