Urban Dictionary defines it as “information that serves no purpose and consumes valuable space in your head.” Infoporn. My brain is full of it. Between innumerable websites vying for my attention each day, TV, music, other thoughts my brain likes to fill itself with, I fear if osmosis doesn’t take over and some of it […]
A view of downtown Vancouver from Granville Island I decided to just do it. If you want something enough, it’s worth the risk, even if it ends in failure. Then at least you knew you tried, and you’ll never have to wonder “what if?” Anyways, to fall is not to fail; you fail when you […]
Brits call it a WC, but it’s not a closet, though there is inevitably water. Just probably not on par with a Fijian artisan aquifer. Europeans call it a Toilet, which is just conjures up such a terrible mental image of heading face first for the porcelain god. Asians just put a triangle (for men) […]
A warm retreat from the rain: one of the many by-the-slice pizza joints that pepper downtown. Could I really live with the rain? This is a question I’ve been pondering since leaving Vancouver. Every single pair of shoes I brought with was at one time in the last week left to dry on the mat […]
By some unknown force I found myself standing in front of the international travel section in Chapters (the Canadian equivalent to Barnes and Noble). As I stared at the shelves filled with books flaunting various country names on their spines, waves of nostalgia crashed over me, quite unexpectedly I might add. I miss it. Suddenly, […]
I was frustrated because I didn’t know what I wanted. Desire is a funny thing because we don’t necessarily choose to want what it is we want. We just want it, for reasons that are subliminal even to ourselves. Not to say that we can’t change the things we want and learn to like things […]
Tonight I sat at the kitchen table with two mini screwdrivers, my iPod, a replacement battery, and a set of instructions the size of a postage stamp. They should’ve included a magnifying glass in the kit as well. You see, I was trying to beat the system, which just so happens to be a little […]