A subpar week

Archived from Jul 06, 2023 It is extremely humid in Toronto right now. I am a saturated sponge and it’s making it hard to think, so this week might be a little short, and a little out of date. I’m sure we all heard about the sub. Now,

Thinking about how to sit with it

Catharsis, or whatever Archived from Jun 29, 2023: I pick my hangnails. I have, basically constantly, for as long as I remember. For years I had acrylics, too thick to be able to pull my hangnails; if I ever needed to clean up my cuticles, I had to resort to

An Impossibly Perfect Piece of Machinery

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

Finding the Lead Lining

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.

500 Days of Summer Sounds Like Hell

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

Recipe Blogs

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

WGA-ing War or: How I Learned to Stop Writing And Love The AI

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

Peeping Tom, by invitation

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,

Drowning is technically an immersive experience

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

Hello, Neighbour

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

OK, The Frogs Probably Aren't Gay

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

The Beer is Making The Frogs Gay! Was Alex Jones right? NOT clickbait

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