March 2011

Mama-Toddler Interactions Translated In To English

March 30, 2011

Or, what this largely wordless conversation would actually sound like if a toddler had roughly the speech skills of a 28-year-old slightly embittered university graduate. Me: Open your mouth! Mama has to get the sugarbugs with the toothbrush! Her: Sugarbugs. [Level stare. Mouth stays closed.] Me: Open up! Let Mama in! Her: Woman, you’ve sunk […]

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Hail Mary for a Convent

March 7, 2011

A copy of my letter to Mayor Jim Watson on the Ashcroft Convent Park Purchase. Mayor Watson: I write to you to appeal to your sense of vision, of what kind of City you want Ottawa to be at the end of your term and beyond. The Les Soeurs de la Visitation property is a […]

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A long ramble on life and the inevitability of screwing it up

March 2, 2011

It’s over, I mean, as over as this kind of thing gets. He pleaded guilty. He told everyone how he killed her. And now he’s going to jail. Leaving everyone else to pick up the pieces of the lives he destroyed. Once a murderer is put away, you expect a sense of relief, of justice […]

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