Reading Red Harvest by Anne Applebaum about the famines brought about by Stalin in the Ukraine and the details of madness, corruption and ignorance are killing me to process and […]

couldn’t sleep, arthritis doing it’s job. so it goes. i did get new waterproof boots and it’s awesome to be fearless in the muddy sections of high park. made beans […]

My favourite class since returning to school four years ago, was a course called Art in Crisis probably, because I learned about artists I didn’t previously know about from Iran, […]

Sometimes I intentionally get stuck in the joyful loop of Come In From The Cold by that Mitchell woman. I’m at the same time surprised the world never celebrated it […]

I asked the young woman with many black and white tattoos on her forearms about the Louis Armstrong music playing as she made an excellent oat milk chai latté. She […]

In my songwriting class two students were discussing a song which turned into another discussion altogether, about people they despised. Then, they wanted my opinion about writing hate songs which […]

Good kombucha, just raspberries, many previous versions and raspberries prove the champ. To the second fermentation added a bit of maple syrup which ensures a sweet bubbly drink and probably […]

I was in a class where the teacher spoke about many things none of which made sense to me though my fellow students were nodding their heads in agreement to […]

Watching the Wizard of Oz with my daughter. Some great unexpected rhymes in the writing and dialogue. Among fave moments when the wizard conceded in bestowing the tin man with […]