TODDLA T was in town this weekend as part of his whistle stop Canada-US tour. It was one of those “summer’s officially over” sort of days. There was rain. There were howling winds (the kind of that whips girls’ hair in every direction at once and causes empty garbage cans to roll about). It was [...]
I left Alaska a month ago, almost day for day. It was late October and Fairbanks was beginning its slow decent into deep-dark winter. The sun, which I’d seen pull effortless all-nighters in early August, was starting to get lazy, never showing much before 9:30 AM. It was getting cold, too, but not insane cold. [...]
UNMOVING DAY by Carolyne Weldon For the 42nd consecutive year, Alice Leblanc didn’t move out of her Verdun apartment yesterday. As the moving season peaked and thousands of families partook in the city’s annual festival of musical chairs, the 91 year-old Gaspé native cranked the air-conditioning and knitted a pair of slippers while watching her [...]
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 [...]