The thing about the interiority imposed by self-quarantine, particularly for a freelancer, is the loss (or at least the reduction) ...

Spring is as close as the Early Snow Glories bordering the front walk. It's coming, whatever else is going on in the world. Like a ...

And here we are, on the first perfect day of spring, and we're inside, looking out. It's a glorious afternoon. The flowers in the...

Originally published in Quill & Quire , October, 2011 In the fall of 1972, the Holy Grail for my friends and me was a Saturd...

In the spring of 2013,  I posted a thread on my Facebook page addressing the media takedown of southern celebrity chef Paula Deen. ...

 [When I was in Winnipeg this past December for a book signing at my favourite bookstore, McNally Robinson, in the week following ...

My second novel, Wild Fell , has been announced as a finalist for the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award. I have very little to say about this ho...

[In honour of the 10th anniversary this week of my visit to Castle Bran in Transylvania—the public face of "Castle Dracula"—I'...