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I signed up for new glasses a few weeks back. Here’s the thing: I’ve been wearing the same pair I got in 2002. The one lens is popping out, they’re…

When I think about the way you entered this world, I marvel, every time. The panic that set in when you made no noise as you arrived into this life……

It’s six years since we had to say goodbye. You’ve missed all of the parts I wish you could’ve seen. All those things you wished for me are coming true,…

As a teenager, I used to catch the bus home from university every day. If I was lucky, I could catch an early bus, then a second one and be…

The way I see it, we’re not getting anywhere close to where we need to be. Wound up in the worldly items we’re somehow taught to care about, we slowly…

I like to think I’m a high-functioning human, able to complete a multitude of tasks within a day, in an ordered fashion that enables me to progress through life. That’s…

This coming Saturday, I will mark my mother’s 72nd birthday. Except it’s not her 72nd birthday, because she’s not here to celebrate it. But her children are. I am. I’m…

Ask anyone who has ever lived with me, and they’ll tell you – I talk when I’m in the shower. It’s here that I get my best ideas, find that…

Life is currently kicking me into shape a bit, and that shape is – well, as I type, I’m pretending I don’t have a cold and am attempting to engineer…

You spend the major portion of your adult life with a backup plan in your pocket. This isn’t a get-out-of-jail-free card. Life isn’t Monopoly. It’s a survival tactic that’s sewn…