The bust was not the kind of thing one sees in a Dutch coffeeshop David Hollander The Canadians in Amsterdam downplayed their love of...

Bob Morrissey One thing about my dermatologist, Dr. Swalley: I never know what to expect when I come in for an appointment. Every second...

David Sherman What if we’re all crazy? Or most of us. Riddled with personality disorders, neuroses, psychoses. Basket cases in a variety...

Earl Fowler Aristotle calculated that it shows up about four months after conception in boys, 90 days in girls. His logic, borrowed from...

David Sherman For about 40 years, give or take a few, Fred and I had lunch. It was immutable. We were former colleagues at what was once...

Earl Fowler It’s reputed to be the oldest joke in the world. The oldest of which we have a written record, anyhoo, inscribed in cuneiform...

Earl Fowler A Discover magazine article about research suggesting that “T. rex brains brimmed with neurons” sparked my 11 remaining...

Earl Fowler You don’t have to be Indian — or, as in my case, married to one — to have spent untold hours you’ll never get back watching...

Bob Morrissey Recently, this  old-timer had a very bad day because of two senior moments, one silly and one that could have been...

David Sherman I’m trying to become a Stoic. It’s a practice like Buddhism or being a Canadiens fan. Stoics accept what they can’t change,...

Michael Nerenberg My travel budget can generously be described as economy. I will gladly forgo the option of air for land, the a la carte...

This moment was extraordinary. I was there, motionless, paralyzed, plunged in a horrible ecstasy. But at the heart of this ecstasy,...

David Sherman On the rare occasions I fly, I try to fly on a Boeing. Whether my destination is Toronto or Beijing, there’s nothing like a...

Gerry Klein I was sitting on a park bench in Guatemala City when I spotted a middle-aged American cross the street and enter the square...

David Sherman One of my neighbours, a man who looks like he spends a lot of time in the sun, if you know what I mean, bought a pink car...

Hyman Weisbord I have shared my life for the last 20 years with a woman whose career was to worry about what could go wrong. Kate was the...

Earl Fowler It occurred to me while walking through a mall the other day. A woman of my well-seasoned vintage, give or take a decade,...

Old people speaking their minds getting so much resistance from behind — Stephen Stills Earl Fowler Might have that quote slightly wrong....

David Sherman You’ve made bitter almost every breath for the last 10 years. It’s not entirely your fault. After all, I do have a mind,...

Earl Fowler Free land was the draw, of course. Practically free. Millions of square miles of pristine Canadian prairie was up for grabs...