Cause for Celebration
Another May 19 wedding.
Category: Relationships and Behaviour
Thoughts on what we do and why – men and women, parents and children, friends and strangers.
Weak or Strong
Judging the rush to pre-judgement
No, No, It’s Fine. Really.
Of course I’m OK to do it all.
Whirling Dervish
Irma and me.
Umm, No
In praise of free speech and free ignoring.
A Conversation with Tammy Wynette
Miss Wynette? Come in please. I’m the new lyrics editor here at Epic Studios. I have a few questions about your latest song. If it’s all right with you, I think we should just go through it together, line by line. Shall we get started? Great! Sometimes it’s hard to …
Not Yet 60
The mid-afternoon autumnal light slanting across the parking lot warms the day and lifts my heart, an involuntary response to something in the quality of the light. The air has a crispness we don’t get in the heat of summer. Dried leaves whisper among themselves, thrown together at random by …
Sayin’ Somethin’ Stupid
An encounter with a gracious Glaswegian and a comment remembered from a decades-old sexual assault case in Edmonton come together to remind me that I can always choose how I respond, both to silly comments and to egregiously offensive ones. I haven’t actually seen that, but, yeah, potentially. In …
Devoutly To be Wish’d
Dealing with strangers on the phone elicits an array of non-reactions and helpful reactions (Yay!) and suspicious, hostile, downright irritating reactions (Boo!). All that information is on the website. Ouch. It’s not the words, it’s the tone. Biting. Impatient. Annoyed. I’m guessing this is not the time to mention …