"I didn't know to be scared," says a precocious woman who just successfully hopped over a huge log. "Ignorance is bliss, I guess." I'm mountain biking with a group of women, many like Sonya here,...
"Toronto has different strata, you know, like archeology?" He looks at me, sweeping his hand in front of his body in a straight line. "There are so many layers to Toronto. And in my head,...
I like sitting at a bar alone in a new country. And no, it's not for the reasons you think. Alone, I can observe. Alone, I can lean over and inject myself into a conversation...
I have never seen women ride bikes like this, ever. I'm at the Pan Am women's mountain bike race and two of Canada's finest are here. Emily Batty is currently ranked the 7th best in the...
"If I get up to get this mouse, yet again, I have impunity to fart," says P. Fine, fart all you want, just get rid of it! At 3AM and unable to sleep, I wasn't about to...
OK, my laundry was getting out of hand and I had a backlog of marking to do...
My first memory of the CN Tower, or, I should say, my dad's first parental nightmare was me spread eagle face down on the tower's glass floor. I was about five: "It scared the crap out...
"And that Wall of Death climb was ...
When I was a kid growing up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, I watched the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) show, The King of Kensington. Actor Al Waxman portrayed Larry, a working class all-round nice guy who...
I don't think I've ever really given my burial much thought. I'm quite ambivalent with the whole death thing; I still think it won't happen. Somehow I will be the one that lives forever. But...