There are certain situations where I find myself overly stressed. For example, while checking out my groceries at the grocery store, I...

"Can I have a birthday party?" I asked my mother a few days before I turned five. "No. They're too much trouble," she replied and...

I recently purchased a copy of Grant Writing for Dummies because I'm an idiot when it comes to applications. Full disclosure, I've never...

"I have to go to Bermuda," I announced to my father one afternoon in September. "Have to, as in, longing to go?" my father asked. "As in,...

When I was young, no one ever sat me down and told me that I could do anything I wanted. There were no pep talks about how I could...

About three weeks into my studies at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, my acting teacher, Mr. Gushee, asked me, "How did you hear...

A few years ago, my husband and I were at a production of Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway when the woman next to me pulled out a bag of...

Tonight, was one of those popcorn and banana muffin dinners I have very infrequently, but still more often than I care to admit. I didn't...

A few weeks ago, our next-door neighbour had guests staying at her B & B for the long weekend and for three days straight, they sat in...

At one time in my life, I lived in Los Angeles. It seemed like a crazy place for me to end up since I never had any inclination towards...

One day when I was barely two My Father took me to the zoo. Because I was too small to see, He had to lift and carry me. Inside his arms,...

The summer after my first year of theatre school, I was sleeping on the living room floor of my cousin's apartment in Toronto, trying to...

Maybe it's Covid-19, I'm not sure, but lately, I seem gripped by some kind of misanthropic anxiety attack whenever I make a trip to the...

At Vatican City, I overheard two American tourists with distinctly southern dialects discussing the beggars who were asking tourists for...

Last March, when the seriousness of Covid-19 hit home, I found myself wondering when I might be able to travel again. On dark winter days...

Sometimes when I can't sleep at night, instead of counting sheep, I count all the different places I've lived. When I was a kid, the...

A few Christmases ago, when in Paris, I happened to become friends with a homeless gentleman who frequented the corner at the end of my...

I was sitting in a movie theatre waiting to see Inception or Perception or Deception, some movie with a title that sounded similar, when...

My parents had the “talk” with me when I was in grade four. I came home from school one day armed with the knowledge that I knew how...

When I was growing up, my father would often refer to my mother's side of the family as though he were speaking in parenthesis. "Your...