David Sherman It chose me. I was six or seven. Teacher said circle the words you know in the newspaper. Those days everyone had a paper...

David Sherman   We indulge in a curiously intimate experience with one or two dozen strangers every morning. We have breakfast. We all...

Please give Donald J. Trump the Nobel Peace Prize. It’s not yours to give, so just take it. After all, you are exceptional. And you care...

Well, my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on I’m...

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.    Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.    In time the curtain-edges will grow...

David Sherman   The story starts when I was waist high. My earliest poultry memories – don’t we all have memories of chicken little? Or...

Bob Morrissey One thing most old-timers have in common is that we can bitch and complain with the best of them. In Montreal, it’s often...

Earl Fowler Scene 1 It was a hot day in the city, the kind that makes you feel like you’re melting into the sidewalk, but you’re too...

Earl Fowler Mostly it was because we were young and stupid and had never known anyone who had taken their own lives. But also we were...

David Sherman Back home, as they were getting walloped by 30 or 40 cms of snow, we were on vacation getting trashed by three or four...

Earl Fowler Truth be told, I’m a bit of a Luddite. If tech savvy has an antonym, I’m the antonym’s synonym. Still have a landline...

Quinn McIlhone One day I’m in ecstasy, the next despair, my system unable to sustain the high, my dilemma simply too painful. My energies...

Earl Fowler For English, press one. Pour continuer en français, dites trois fois “câline de bine.” Please stay on the line and your call...

David Sherman 1)    Don’t bother to learn a word of the local language. You’re on vacation with a pocket full of euros, pesos, dongs or...

Bob Morrissey I was squirming in my favourite chair, two feet from the TV screen, watching Ultimate Strongman 2024, when my new hearing...

1) If you now find the highlight of awards shows like the Grammys to be the In Memoriam section, where you recognize at least a few of...

Ah, Dad. If I could coax the flat washers from the jars in the garage with your Robertson screwdrivers and your chisels and pry bar,...

Earl Fowler Please allow me to introduce myself. I’m a hard-nosed private dick circling the abyss, more Preparation H than petroleum...

David Sherman   It is a nation of contrasts. Beaten, worn facades on narrow cobblestone streets hiding wondrous, beautiful courtyards and...

Two Dominican nuns dressed in white tunics and black cappas ride bicycles toward the Convento di Santa Maria Novella. The first, a...