I swear this is true. One day, sitting at one of our regular in-the-park meetings, I heard one of the group say, “It could be your dongle, you know.”
2022 July
Like all of us, I’ve been watching the stories of the health-care teams — the doctors, nurses and others — working the overcrowded and impossible ICUs.
When I drive down James Street North just past the West Harbour GO station, I think of Peter Falk. Let me tell you why.
When I drive down James Street North just past the West Harbour GO station, I think of Peter Falk. Let me tell you why.
You may have missed it: a new star was born the other day.
It was a retreat of the university’s department of psychiatry, at the university.
She looked at me across the desk, clear-eyed, resolved. Practical. “Please,” she said. “Don’t sugar-coat this.”
“What are you working on?” I asked, trying to break the ice with my new patient.
“It’s 6:30!” one of us says, like it’s some kind of magic hour. Like it wasn’t 6:29 just a minute before.