To Beauty

The other night you and I broached a delicate issue: The degree to which we should want to change a person we claim to love. I've delibe...

It's not very often that someone makes you think of something in a genuinely new way. But it happened just the other day. A good friend ...

God, I hardly know where to begin. I hope you can handle a long post. This is chance to tell you, in a more coherent form, some of the thing...

God, I hardly know where to begin. I hope you can handle a long post. This is chance to tell you, in a more coherent form, some of the thing...

This has been my couples week. Over the last seven days, I've spent time with five different couples - some long-term friends, some mere...

After watching The Station Agent , Bad Santa , and Austin Powers , and writing about them in Dwarves , I brought home the DVD of Big Fish , ...

Last night, the strangest thing happened. A bunch of friends and I were having an extended dinner on the local patio (the one where, last we...

I want to write to you tonight, Beauty, but I hardly know where to start. Part of me wants to write to you seriously, creatively and intelle...

Yesterday, I brought two DVD’s home from the video store: Bad Santa , a film recommended by an ex-girlfriend, and The Station Agent , a film...

Maybe it’s a measure of my insecurity, or merely a predictable response to love, but I often find myself wishing that I were more: more attr...

Lately, I've been concerned about the increasingly 'virtual' nature of my communication, especially with my friends. I'm no...

I feel an odd momentum building, and I'm not sure if it's just in me, or in the world in general. Maybe it's just the intoxicati...

It was cool and sunny this morn, so I got up early and zipped down to Bloor St. for breakfast. I stumbled across lots of lovely stuff in th...

Well, it had to happen eventually. I hurt my back doing hot yoga. It's my own fault. I twisted myself into a pretzel and I knew, even as...

This essay, by R. M. Rilke, is the most beautiful and inspiring prose I have ever read: To speak of solitude again, it becomes always clear...

You say that you often feel 'powerless'. The irony is that you are exceedingly powerful (smart, funny, sexy, talented, loved, reaso...

FRIEND So, why are you in such a mood? ME What's that supposed to mean? F...