Sangria nights: on this evening in 2015, drinking sangria at Café California and watching the crowds go by on Church Street. My friends Vi...

Fifty-seven years ago tonight, activists Andrew Goodman, Mickey Schwerner, and James Earl Chaney were murdered by the KKK near Philadelphia,...

  I have the oddest feeling that Philippe Mora's Communion (1989) is not a very good film, but I love it anyway, because it makes me no...

From the October 2003 issue of The United Church Observer , a short essay about our legal marriage on June 15th of that year—18 years ago to...

I was thrilled this afternoon when the postman dropped off my copy of the trade paperback of Stephen King's most recent novella collecti...

Im agine the poignancy last night to learn that niece-of-the-heart Kylee, of my Massachussets extened family, is engaged. This morning I am ...

  One of the ugliest, most predictable, most shopworn tropes that gets trotted out when LGBT people stand with the Muslim community during a...

  This is the Afzaal family. They emigrated from Pakistan to Canada in 2007 to start a new life. That new life ended on Sunday, June 6th, 20...

  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...