A political party that had lost its way a little decided it was time for a new leader. Initially, it seemed likely to choose a man for...

Hûrl Flower The night was thick with a rain that didn’t quite know whether to fall or hang in the air, like the unspoken words between...

Earl Fowler J-P’s the name, existential detection the game. Let’s say I’m in a room where the significance of doorknobs is encountered at...

Quinn McIlhone You drop your g’s after only a few days in Florida. That man is blockin’ mah ack-sess, you say, slamming the car into...

Earl Fowler Must be somewhere (sweet life)  to be found  (out there somewhere for me)  instead of a concrete jungle (jungle) , where the...

Earl Fowler Gone with the Wi-Fi? Snoozin’ in the rain? The empanadas striking back? Here are 10 movie sequels for 12 gangrene men sure to...

Earl Fowler It was a Tuesday morning. The kind of day you don’t remember, the kind of day you just don’t care about. Nobody would. The...

Earl Fowler RD.com , the online version of Reader’s Digest, ran a fun (if slightly macabre) piece by Lauren Cahn last year titled “19...

Earl Fowler Chapter 1: The Place It was the kind of place that’d make a man want to ask for a refund before he even stepped through the...

Earl Fowler Seventy signs that at 70, you’re older than dirt: • Think DoorDash is making it home just in time with a bursting bladder....

David Sherman   I’ve gone cold turkey. Gave it up. Killed the apps. Deleted the barrage of newsletters that track me, unsubscribed to the...

Quinn McIlhone Our first day on the island you are laissez-faire toward my drinking. We revert to the pattern of the café on Crescent as...

Earl Fowler Like the shy kids on prom night they fidget on the sidelines, waiting to be summoned to the dance floor of consciousness. We...

Earl Fowler Top 10 reasons for Canada to become the 51st state of the United States, as being advocated by some schmuck stateside: 10....

David Sherman News is harrowing. As comic Lewis Black said, every story in the New York Times was enough to give him colitis. And those...

Earl Fowler As the fabulous Fran Lebowitz has observed, it was way more fun to be in one’s twenties in the seventies than in one’s...

Earl Fowler Some pastors are like the nubby nibbed tips of God’s editorial pencils dripping venomous Christian nationalism toward the...

To bidet, or not to bidet, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the hind to suffer The springs and narrows of outrageous fortune,...

You know. At the end. Be just another watch-wearing schnorrer plunging toward my own reflection. Fretting about thieves stealing cans...

And at the centre of it all where the bookstore used to be a Tim Hortons full of lost souls and a store called Cash Money where they lend...