I knew a guy who studied South Indian dance who told me that smiling was part of the training, as in one was supposed to smile was dancing and that […]

Another thing I love about The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is that there’s music playing throughout the book that the characters are noticing and questioning or haunted or […]

The first days after I moved to Toronto, my brother Ronnie and Ray made me feel welcome by marching me up and down Beverly street and the Art Gallery of […]

While walking today, I came upon a section of the path where a red headed bird, which at first I thought a woodpecker, was busy scrounging the surface of a […]

I am reading so many things for school it doesn’t make sense to try fitting in something unrelated for pleasure but what a pleasure it is to start The Master […]

Sometime around 1995 I was scoring the show Twitch City for CBC made by Don McKellar and Bruce MacDonald. It was only 13 episodes which was too bad because it […]

found out fellow students in one of my last classes, unhappy with their mark, complained and got their mark raised. what then should one do if willing to accept their […]

In my dream last night, an older woman I know, was infirm in an old folks home, bedridden and I was seeing her for what we both knew would be […]

ran into a friend who is also doing a phd, he has many similar experiences on being an older student and whats peculiar about fellow students or teachers who embrace […]

Last year I heard a singer at an open stage explain the next song was about a life or death encounter he had climbing a mountain in Nepal, although he […]