Walking down the corridor at Spadina subway station a couple of boys start laughing. Interested in what the joke is I look over and see them pointing at a sign on the wall that says something along the lines of, ‘Hold railing firmly’. This sign, which is embedded in the brick wall and consequently there to stay, is a left over from when there use ( Read more... )

Having been immersed a various projects as of late I can only apologize for not having time, for although I wanted to write I actually have not had time to. Not only that but I feel as though I have not /do not event have time to process what has been going on in my life. Projects that I am glad to be part of have become all consuming to the point ( Read more... )

Family ( Read more... )

April 29 ( Read more... )

Its raining today ( Read more... )

Riding on the streetcar I overhear a conversation between a father and his two kids of about eight and ten years old. He seems to be attempting to convince them that they will have fun with their mother, to where they are presumably on their way. The boy (the younger of the two) protests that they don’t get to do as much fun stuff like going to the ( Read more... )

For Solares, “the environmental damage that the Cuban government has caused is almost irreparable and it will take years to achieve a return to normalcy ( Read more... )

I am writing in response to some other questions/comments that people have addressed in other posts ( Read more... )

As of late I have had a number of events go on that have left me feeling uncomfortable and unsafe. I keep waking up from nightmares. I can’t sleep when I go to bed. All the places that I considered home have been disrupted in some way and it has left me longing for a place where I can feel like myself again - a new place to call home. Although, I ( Read more... )

With every holiday season I end up having that same old conversation with a paranoid and over protective Christian who seems to think that the world is trying to steal Christmas from them. “I’m going to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and if they don’t like it too bad”, he says with vigour. I try to explain that there is no conspiracy and that ( Read more... )