If threatening weather approaches, TAKE IMMEDIATE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
Tonight’s wild weather forecast is rather illustrative of my current emotional state: threat of thunderstorms, lashing hail and damaging winds may be on the agenda, and that’s fine with me. I rather feel like tucking in and curling up under the covers with a glass of wine, some feisty, herbed crackers, and a wheel of … Read more
baby steps, followed by explosives
“You can share my pole with me.” Contrary to what you’re thinking right now, I’m not referring to anything even remotely naughty. Rather, it’s an offering I heard one woman give to another, late one night back in November, when I was coming home around from the office. The bus was jam-packed—probably twenty to thirty … Read more
Up Against Another Medicine Cabinet Wall
Have you ever had a PAP and felt like you were on display in the middle of a Shoppers Drug Mart? That’s the feeling when the walls of the medical clinic are parchment-thin and you can heard every.single.word exchanged between the nurse practioner, assisting medical students, doctors and other patients. How.uncomfortable. However, my relative embarrassment … Read more
Desiderata ["Things to be desired"]
I first read this inspirational poem framed in a calligraphy poster on the wall in a friend’s parents’ home in Newmarket, back when I was still attending York University. I read it as a positive credo for life and it spoke to the eternal optimist in me, without being naïve or condescending as some popular poems are wont to … Read more
Why go barefoot?
Recently, I’ve been asked: what’s up with the feet? why bare feet? what is barefeetallowed and what are you all about? So, in answer to the questions, I’ve written a short defence of the symbolic and practical application of going barefoot. This is what I attempt to adhere to on this blog and in my life under … Read more
Produits biologiques
Visiting any natural food or health store is a dangerously tempting place for me. Here in Ottawa, I am particularly fond of The Natural Food Pantry because the store has reasonable prices and offers a wide range of health and beauty care products, environmentally-sound and eco-friendly products for home living and organic cooking products for the … Read more
As Stable as Standing on a Sandbox
I went for a long walk this morning, a quick-paced 6-kilometre route west, around to the bank and back home, my Ipod tucked inside the mouth of my short-sleeved, wacky 60s-inspired shirt. The wind was fierce, bending trees almost horizontal to the ground, and whipping my new haircut into my mouth. It was exhilarating and … Read more
Some superheroes can fly; others: peripheral vision.
A car accident, bungee-jump gone wrong, bicycling and rollerblading mishaps have been a few of the speculative guesses I got from strangers as I struggled through the last three weeks of trying to maneuver first with a full-arm cast on my right arm and an elbow cast on my left, and then later, now, reduced … Read more
