Heat Wave

Shhhhh. I’m in hiding. Technically, I’m just keeping a low profile in my basement, since we’ve finally broken into the true summer weather. It’s going to be more than 30 Celsius today, just like it was yesterday, and we’re supposed to keep riding this wave of glorious heat for at least a week. It’s arrived…

Turning Thirty and Pouring Rain

I turn thirty, or (preferably) twenty-nine and four quarters, today, an event I’ve made no secret about dreading. It’s not really that I anticipated my teeth would all fall out when I rolled over into the next decade, or that I’d forever be bound to wear only ugly sensible shoes in colours like taupe, beige,…