The brutal legacy of the Indian Residential Schools is Canada's great shame. The recent discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous chi...

I found a lilac blossom reaching over a fence this afternoon as if it were trying to touch me. I stopped, put it against my face, and breath...

1. Helen Hardt Rowe was born in Dunkirk, New York on July 29th, 1930. She had a love for children's theatre and poetry. She studied the ...

Ten years ago today, I was in Austin, Texas at a literary convention. I'd get up in the morning, have breakfast, return to my hotel room...

Throwback Thursday, Magazine Edition: In 2007, The Advocate flew me to San Antonio, to interview Marine Staff Sgt. Eric Alva, the first U....

  A sudden gust of spring wind blew down the street, scattering magnolia blossoms, and a momentary burst of unearthly fragrance literally st...

  In today's mail, a gifted 8-year old artist of my acquaintance sent me this beautiful rendering of Beckett. It's a given that I wi...

  Alhamdulillah. 

My brilliant godson Michael, who is 16, was born with an instinctive eye for beauty. He is as deft and skilled with a camera as he is with a...

  Over and over, I've meditated upon the specific connection between anti-mask entitlement, and the sort of xenophobic, anti-Arab tirade...

Interviewing 1984 Olympic gold medallist Alex Baumann in Sudbury, Ontario, in 1985, for Close-Up magazine. It was an almost-five-mile driv...

" For his part, Harper’s age was a massive, inescapable truth told through the lens of the Nikon. The perfect coffee-colored eyes were ...

My 2006 on-set interview with SAW III director Darren Lynn Bousman—the cover story of Fangoria #258. What I most remember about that assig...

  I alway forget what a masterpiece of social commentary is Taylor Hackford's The Devil's Advocate (1997) on top of everything else...

  “At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you don...