Published in Galaxy Brain, September 2020

It was a fight that I was destined to lose. Heavy-lidded and defeated, I grabbed two foam flutterboards and ducked into the men’s changing room. Arranged end-to-end, the flutterboards served as a makeshift sleeping surface. Confident that no swimmers would appear, I’d determined to make the best of it by catching some cherished Zs.

Published in the premier edition of Galaxybrain.ca in July of 2020.

Published in the Facts & Arguments section of the Globe & Mail, November 2016

I was intrigued recently when I came upon an advice column in Wired magazine addressing the very conundrum I had faced following my mother's death in January, 2010: How soon after the loved one departs should one deactivate the Facebook account? Oh, the ethical quandaries we face in the age of social media …

Posted to Facebook in April 2020

Today at about noon I drove away from my ex-wife’s house, where I’d just dropped off our 3.5-year-old son. I’d had him at my place for a good stretch so almost immediately in the car that weird mix of elation and sadness washed over me. The burden of caring for the kid was suddenly gone but the kid, too, was suddenly gone …

Posted to Facebook in March of 2020 (just prior to the lockdown)

Because working from home is new to many of you but old hat to me …

Posted to Facebook in January 2020

Of what follows I have very limited memories. There are really only fragments to replay in my mind, some of which I may have embellished or invented entirely over the years. Nevertheless, the emotions that remain are real. This I know for certain. Here’s what I think I remember …