Previously I believed I could not write fiction. It’s not important why I thought so, just note that I went from “I can’t,” to “here’s…
While Europe’s eye is fix’d on mighty things,The fate of empires and the fall of kings;While quacks of State must each produce his plan,And even…
Here’s a variation on the proverbial desert island question: What if you were to be stranded on an island and could take as many books,…
Contentment is for Cows, the Blog, is ten years old! When it was created, the comic strip was supposed to be the star of the…
My father was still working full time at age 68. When I asked him if he was thinking at all about retirement, he answered that…
From loud explosions to snide comments made at a cocktail party, the normal, human, universal response is to freeze. A couple of heartbeats are required…
One evening, circa 1975, my boyfriend was driving me home. We were having an enormous fight; I had talked to another man at the bar….
When my cousin Stuart was a kid he visited our Aunt in Toronto’s west end, circa 1960. She was a single, working, professional woman in…
If given a choice between losing your wallet or losing your cell phone, which would you choose? When was the last time you went a…
Nobody storms the Bastille with their mouth full. If Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette had had the insight to change the tax system to give…