What are you paying for?
Accounting for the history of the University
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Think of the children
Each and every one of us, every *a*, every **k*, every ***n**, every ******x*** (or some combination thereof), has heard it in one form or another: “Think of the children!” Just think about their extreme innocence and whatnot; their empty expressions, their charming lack of socialization, their curious natures. We all know that it’s quite
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Please, go to a Slam Show
The year is 2020 and I’m worried that we’ve forgotten what poetry sounds like. Our particular artistic epoch’s favoured form is, for lack of a better term, Instagram poetry. A lot has been said about Insta poets which I will not repeat here! But I will say that much of it reads like slam poetry
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The upward loop
Looking at family histories It’s a source of pride to me that I can bake a batch of ginger molasses cookies, put them all in the oven, and have the mess cleaned up in about an hour. This recipe, clipped from The Globe and Mail years ago, makes the best cookies. They are always moist and perfectly spiced and they bake
Queer for the holidays
Fending off isolation over the winter break
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