A dog’s breakfast

There’s something to be said for proper space management and how it affects your well-being and frame of mind. I, for one, have never felt comfortable working at a desk with my back to the door. I believe when you’re lying in bed, you should be able to see the room’s doorway from where you [...]

The drive north to Christmas

My car and I get along. We pretty much have to, for all the time we spend together. I’ve spent seven years driving everywhere in my little Civic – to the various universities I’ve attended, for my jobs, for road trips to the cottage or to Ottawa, Montreal, and more recently all over the province [...]

Tell it like it is

When you’re celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali, Eid al-Adha or Kwanzaa, don’t bother saying “happy holidays” in replace of your own traditional holiday greeting. Don’t mash all the observances into one generic holiday at schools. As this Toronto Sun columnist says, each one should be honoured and celebrated for what it is and we should all [...]

Hit a roadblock

I’ve come close to dumping this blog several times in the past few weeks and I’m not quite sure why I haven’t gone through with it. Time is a precious commodity I don’t have much of these days and when I do manage to find a spare moment, I’m either a) reluctant to spend it [...]

Politicians and journalists don’t agree

I’ve always been amused by studies that produce results so predictable they make you want to slap your hand to your forehead and say, “Wow, that was a waste of time!” Like a study that finds the gap between rich and poor is increasing in urban areas. Or a study that links lack of sleep [...]

Following the blog trail

Blogstats can lead you to some strange places. And leave you asking a lot of questions.
Who in Barcelona, Rio de Janiero and St. Petersburg (Russia) was looking at my site this weekend? And why do my posts get randomly previewed on sites like this one? Or like this? Webots perhaps.
Weird.

Time lapse video of Toronto

I saw this time lapse video on BlogTO and thought it was pretty cool. It reminds me of the time I stood outside Queen’s Park at College and University for an hour and a half before dawn twice in freezing cold March to do a time lapse of the sun rising over the legislative buildings. [...]