I recently watched a video essay by one of my generation’s spokespersons, George Stroumboulopoulos . It’s an essay about aging, about our mo...

 I've mentioned my frustration with work and life a couple of times over the last year. It's such a weird position to be in because ...

 ...this is probably not a world we should be bringing children into.  I've always had this lingering memory from a movie or TV show I w...

A few weeks ago I stumbled on an episode of the “WithinReason” podcast hosted by Alex O’Connor where he spoke to Good Mythical Morning host...

Defying all odds, tomorrow will be one year since I (and The Navigator ) got back into blogging. And I don't think either of us has miss...

Over the past month, I've taken on a new challenge: I'm learning French. Oui, Je parle en francais. It actually started as part of t...

Suppose it's my day to blog but I'm not really in the mood for the fun I had planned.  Was unsuccessful in the job I was applying on...

 The news arrived about two weeks ago : Pope Francis passed away at the ripe old age of 88. After much mourning and chest-beating, the Catho...

I know I promised that the Campaign for Pope 2025 would start today in my last blog post . And I suppose in private it has. But there are a ...

If there's one thing people have always remembered this blog for, it's my campaign to have my Dad named Pope during the 2005 Conclav...

Last weekend, I stumbled across a fun mini-doc on YouTube about one of my favourite cartoons from back when I was a kid, Inspector Gadget ....

As I get older my relationship with music has started to come full circle in so many ways. It's always interesting to me to hear some mu...

 There are so many ways to make popcorn. You can cook it in a pot with oil or use an air popper. For the especially adventurous out there yo...

I've had many lofty goals and aspirations in my life. It might be why I'm a bit of a "jack of all trades". Everything inte...

 The obsession of 2025 so far has been the endless back and forth on tariffs between the United States and Canada. It's been the most un...

It seems that the only thing anyone is talking about these days is the on-again/off-again trade war between the United States and - well b...

I was holding out on writing this blog, hoping that world events would turn a different way and I could go back to an old well on this blog....

Rhonda sent me a text last week that is threatening to disrupt my entire life. Unroot my stability and change everything.  Do I have $70,000...

 I've never identified as a "gamer". I absolutely play my share of video games but I don't have a desk chair that looks li...

I never got a tattoo. I think my original hesitation of not wanting a permanent work of art on my ever-changing identity has been far oversh...