When I want to be a kid again I go to the movies and fill up a plastic bag with candy. You know the kind, the stuff you pay for by-the-pound. The options are exhilarating. I lick my lips and… Read More ›
Rant
The Process of Disbelief
If you can’t take the heat, get out of the way. It was one of those days. I overslept. I missed my train. I stood on the platform and hoped for summerwhile the leaves forgot green. I forgotmy breakfast bar. I… Read More ›
TAPed Out
They even locked the bloody mini-bar! My story starts something like Lord of the Flies, but my plane did not dive into the sea and instead we diverted 30 minutes south to a resort town to refuel (so… Read More ›
A Fare For Fools
It is the night rate. There wasn’t much of a line at that hour. The Policia even opened the door for me. “Let me give you a map, here, we are here at the airport and your hotel is there,”… Read More ›
C Our Age
Spoonful of Courage helps my typos go down. It’s funny how tiny pebbles, each about the weight of an Advil, can be combined and manipulated with other ingredients to create an impenetrable castle wall with the strength of an anvil. … Read More ›
A Goodbye Can Go Bad
A goodbye can go both ways. A solid goodbye should go unnoticed. It should be a seamless transition that thrusts the conservationists in opposite directions. But in real life, it’s just not that easy, and when a goodbye is off… Read More ›
Wiped Out: Tale of a Bad Mood Turned Right
“That’s where the guy who invented the windshield wipers lives,” we’d all say on our way to the T.O. Mall. I never saw the guy, assuming it was a guy who invented what now seems obvious: automated and opposing squeegees…. Read More ›
The Big Squeeze
“You go to da box for two minutes, ya know, by yourself … you feel shame … and then you get free.” - Denis Lemieux Jet-lag is legit, and it makes your first cup of coffee back in the… Read More ›
What do You Want, a Plaque?
There is something terribly odd about the fact that I repaired my toothbrush. True, yesterday I had to turn my book off during take-off and landing, and that is odd too. But repairing a toothbrush is just bizarre when you… Read More ›
Just Faucet, It’s a Bad Idea
I’ve said it before, I’m not living in the UK simply to draw comparisons and make complaints but sometimes I have to ask myself, really? Okay, here is the deal: this is a highly developed economy and home to countless… Read More ›
eternal Domnation 