In 2008, my friend Suzen and I started making short video diaries as a way of keeping in touch across the country. I'm clearing out some files from my computer and I found the videos I'd made. Here are some text excerpts that prove no matter how much I think…
I tried for a week and a half to get through 23 pages of a "literary" novel I ended up abandoning, but have spent the past two hours completely engrossed in a book based on the Dragon Age video game series. Draw from that any conclusions you will. (I was…
This 1945 penny was in my change from the grocery store in 2010, and it's one of my most prized possessions. I’m not really a monarchist, but I like to imagine the way the world was when this coin was new. In the grander scheme of history, it's very recent,…
Reading descriptions of food in books is maybe one of my favourite things. I often read the descriptions two or three times, imagining how the combinations work and comparing the food to what I'm already familiar with. Recently I read a food description in Ethan Frome that was among the…
There are some writers who I enjoy as writers more than I enjoy their writing. Stephen King is one of them. Doris Lessing is another. That's not to say I dislike their writing, but I don't respond to it as well as to what they say about the practice of being…
