marginalia, etc.

Algorithms To Live By

If there’s one thing I learned from reading Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths’ Algorithms To Live By, it’s that my mind does not operate like a computer, at all.

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

The one thing I have missed most over the past few weeks, as I have been healing from my herniated disc, is the ability to stroll. While previously I would spend hours a day on my feet, journeying on sidewalks and in parks, never moving in a direct line to get from A to B, but…

Housekeeping.

There will come a time in a conversation with a stranger or a new friend when they will ask me why my work has taken me to so many different countries, why I never stayed in place for too long. The answer I always give, somewhat cheekily, somewhat accurately, is that “I get antsy after more than three…

How To Be Happy

Last year, a smartphone application was released that could only be purchased and installed with a doctor’s prescription. The app…

Fates and Furies

Early in Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, a cat watches an outdoor dinner party, and we are privy to the cat’s thoughts of…

The Speechwriter

Barton Swaim’s The Speechwriter reads like a novel, a piece of fiction spun from the brain of a gifted storyteller with an astute…

Originally published on inthemargins.ca on August 31, 2017.

There were times, while reading Rupi Kaur’s milk and honey, when I was tempted to tear out pages, snippets, and paste them on the wall next to me.