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There either is a Parasitic host inside me making me do regrettable things or maybe another Parasitic host makes me believe regret is me and I am a victim. Either […]

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After my teaching shift each Wednesday at Seneca I walk over to the Korean place by the subway and order rice and add sesame seeds and sriracha. They like me, […]

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I believe I am more polite than most of my fellow Torontonians when it comes to the subway. I stand well back from the doors, giving departing passengers a clear […]

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A student from Nepal, who couldn’t vote, asked the class who they were voting for. The responses spread across the familiar spectrum: five for the Liberals, three for the NDP, […]

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You might wonder what’s higher up the mountain, but until your body climbs, until your breath shortens and your legs burn with ascent, you can’t truly know. The mind speculates, […]

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When people talk about diets, they often speak not just of reaching a goal but of keeping it off as if the success is already slipping, already plotting its return. […]

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I watch people gripped by fear for a future that hasn’t arrived, and when I try to say gently, this panic is over something not here yet, it only deepens […]

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I’d never truly heard of the Komodo dragon until one lunged at me through a late-night spiral of YouTube. Now I can’t stop watching. Their jaws clamp down on whole, […]

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You can’t supply wisdom to someone simply by showing them words. That’s the trick in the teaching business. Like Arnold, the psychiatrist, used to say at our staff meetings, “a […]