Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.
I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.
Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.
Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.
Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.
The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future.