Meghan lives in Toronto with her editor and cat Kafka. While she writes about life and tech, she dampens the existential dread with painting, cooking and podcasts.
Intellectually, they knew a great deal. Practically, they chose to know almost nothing. - Jaws, Peter Benchley I have had a deep seated climate anxiety for a long time. I think these newsletters are at least a partial testament to that fact. Sometimes people compare the stress of ongoing climate
Archived from Jun 08, 2023: Last week I was melting, this week I’m coughing. I’ve had a headache for two days from the northern Ontario smoke settling into the city, and I feel like everything is fuzzy. My cat has been sleeping with her paw over her nose.
Archived from Jun 01, 2023: I am a coat weather kind of gal. Born in the fall, I feel like it’s the time of year I’m made for. I like rain, though the weeks without sun in Toronto can be a bit much. I own an excess of
Archived from May 25, 2023: My favourite recipes always take days to make. They start, in spirit, with a text, or running into someone I haven’t seen in a while. I wake up, maybe the sun is shining, maybe the birds are singing; “Hey, dinner soon?” Some back and
Archived from May 18, 2023: “So potentially, what you could do with it is obviously use it to engineer storytelling and change storytelling. So you have a constantly evolving story, either in a game or in a movie, or a TV show. You could walk into your house and save
Archived from May 11, 2023: It’s funny how much you can learn about yourself by doing something for other people. I have no illusions about my political leanings, nor do I make any attempt to conceal them. I operate from the view that all participation in society is political,
Archived from May 04, 2023: Good morning, dear friends and happy Thursday. I hope you’re well caffeinated for this one, because it’s a doozie. When I first started this draft, it was going in a certain direction, and then another large bank failed this week. Doesn’t that
Archived from Apr 27, 2023: One of the weird things about the pace of the world is that I’ll put a few thoughts in a file to remind myself to write about them at some point, and only days later they feel irrelevant. This is wholly absurd because so
Archived from Apr 24, 2023: This past Thursday, I wrote about the general tantrums being thrown over Bud Light. I wrote on some of my own experiences in beer and my assumption that our cultural pace is simply too shortsighted for the “boycott” to matter for more than a few
Archived from Apr 20, 2023: No, of course Alex Jones isn’t right. But unfortunately, for the last week I have been subjected to a slew of videos, articles, tweets and what have you, that would make you think so. I do not know if Alex Jones, infamous, supposedly bankrupt
Archived from Apr 13, 2023: And I feel sure that my wounds will healAnd I will bloom here in my room With a little water and a little bit of sunlight And a little bit of tender mercy - The Mountain Goats, Absolute Lithops Effect I am, I think foundationally,
Archived from Apr 06, 2023: “Painting is but another word for feeling” - John Constable To be honest, I had little to no inspiration this week. I won’t bore you with the tedious list of stuff that my brain goblin is trying to wrangle, but I did complain to