It's been pretty much my most favourite kind of Toronto November Saturday afternoon, cold enough for my purple scarf. Brunch with Dext...

 This superb profile of my friend Ron Oliver in the November issue of Toronto Life is now online. Enjoy!  https://torontolife.com/deep-dives...

  My American grandmother, Alvina Becker Hardt, born in Alsace-Lorraine, Germany in 1902, at the very dawn of the 20th century, has been on ...

Tricked out in my white canvas Tilly hat like Jessica Fletcher off to solve a mystery on my annual pre-dinner Thanksgiving perambulation out...

I hunted down my dear friend Nicholas Pullen's stellar debut The Black Hunger on this, the evening of his publication day. I've been...

  With award-winning veteran broadcaster and author Carol Off, before we took the stage on Saturday night.  [Photo: Bernard Clark Photograph...

  These exquisite Ontario early-autumn clouds through the windshield of Stephen's car, on the drive home from Orillia this afternoon str...

I opened a copy of the September/October issue of THE WALRUS this evening, and found this ad for our Kingston Writers Festival event on Sept...

Walking home tonight in the mercifully cooler night. It's been so humid that tonight, the t-shirt I wore to the gym was almost as damp a...

  Feeling a pressing need to spend this Canada Day outside of the city, the Hero MD™ and I drove deep into the countryside outside of Toront...

  This past weekend, the Globe and Mail ran a full page 800-word excerpt of my essay from Pride as an op-ed in the Opinion section, whic...

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Happy (official) Publication Day to PRIDE ! Our beautiful little jewel of a book (thanks, Douglas & McIntyre, you did us so proud!) is n...