Houses

Cottage Status Report 20250510

The hummingbirds are back, complete with their asshole behaviour, dive-bombing each other to get to the feeder even though there is more than enough to go around. The day after I filled the feeder with pseudo-nectar, I noticed it was down just over half. I blamed bird gluttony until I discovered a pool of sugar water on the steps of …

Houses

Suburban Status Report 20250330

Today, I unearthed (un-snowed?) my Globe and Mail newspaper from February 7. I wasn’t completely sure what had happened to it at the time, but suspected it had been plowed ...
Middle Age

Canadian Status Report 20250308

I decided to retire my parka late last week, when the runoff from Toronto’s snowmageddon was pooling in the crevasses of the wonky sidewalks and the snowbanks were withering under ...
Middle Age

Blame Canada

I went to the grocery store today, Farm Boy, a resolutely Canadian grocery store. I just had to pick up a few things I needed for dinner today and tomorrow. ...
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Writer. Editor. Ghostwriter.

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The next instalment of my memoir, If It’s Shreveport, It Must Be Tuesday, will be published in 2025.

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