“Woo-hoo” to “Yahoo:” Santa Fe has it all
Toronto Star, April 29: While it’s just a slogan on a T-shirt most places, ‘Dance like no one’s watching’ is pretty much how they roll in Santa Fe. The city […]
Madrid: A quick and colourful day trip from Santa Fe
Toronto Star, April 29: Madrid, a town of a few hundred half an hour south of Santa Fe, is named for a town in Missouri not the city in Spain. […]
Mike O’Brien is a very funny, very dying man. Read this, laugh your arse off and send him good wishes.
Originally posted on The Big Diseasey:
Believe me, I’m as surprised as you are. My health, my energy and my spirits are so up-and-down I really don’t know how I’m…
San Juan, Puerto Rico: Where a pina colada trumps tea
Toronto Star April 18: “We are not a tea culture,” says the waiter at Café Puerto Rico, explaining why there is no English Breakfast on the menu. Indeed, it’s a […]
Painting your fingernails isn’t just for girly girls
Calgary Herald, April 6–She had the dexterity of a surgeon. The skill of an artist. The manicurist held my hand and quickly, carefully painted each nail. Her head was bowed. Her […]
Why are we picking on women who choose to wear the black veil and applauding those who wear a white one?
The first time I saw a woman draped from head to toe in shapeless black cloth, I was pretty sure she was wearing handcuffs underneath. I gave the guy she […]
The slippery slope of sweatpants
Calgary Herald, March 9, 2014–I once worked with a woman who, after a long night on her feet wearing high heels, a short skirt and a fitted jacket went off […]
Huatulco, Mexico: Just like home but way hotter
Toronto Star, March 7, 2014: It may be the maple leaves scattered on towels, hats and t-shirts. It could be all sun-screened noses buried in Chris Hadfield’s book around the […]
Saying “I do” in Sin City
Toronto Star, Feb 14– Carly Iwaasa’s parents weren’t too happy about their daughter getting married in Las Vegas. “The first thing my mom said was: ‘Is Elvis going to marry […]
Taking pictures the old fashioned way
Toronto Star, Feb 12, 2014–The gorilla’s face stares at you. Fireworks explode above Canary Island. A beautiful family smiles on safari. Brian Iriye scrolls through the photos he’s transferred from […]
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