Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day

People will always choose more money over more sex

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.