Oof, forgot: email is in bio!

(Would appreciate any boost of this) I am always looking for pitches for opinion pieces for the Toronto Star. Can be on any topic, but "smart and accessible" is what we're going for. Of interest to a Torontonian/Canadian audience is important. #toronto

We cannot let literature die. How will humanity survive if they cannot hear bangers like "baby girl you a ten, but I'm the one"?

I wonder if the rest of my life will just be the spaces between medical appointments

Every so often I'm struck by how much I enjoy reading fiction - just how much it feels like home - and am then dumbfounded that my now-addled brain and attention has made it harder for me to do more regularly?

I know what you want - you want to listen to me talk to three economists about what it means for Canadians that inflation has been brought to heel! www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Navneet Alang: Life in Canada feels so expensive. Here’s how that might change

Three economists explain why the cost of living in Canada is so high, and may stay that way for a while.

remember cinemagraphs? and how they hinted at something promising?

A Clockwork Orange-style deprogramming regimen for thinking of Twitter as the locus of social discourse

Does anyone else experience this - a feeling of threat when reading an angry screed against one's own ideological position?

A thing I'm trying to get a handle on is feeling so perturbed and even threatened when I read something deeply opposed to the way I make sense of the world. In that sense, being an opinion writer sorta makes sense; it's a way to solidify one's perspective.