Some days you may ask: why am I seldom writing long, in-depth  pieces about a particular topic of burning interest? Why instead do I re...

Artists struggle to survive in age of the blockbuster RUSSELL SMITH Special to The Globe and Mail Published  Thursday, Nov...

    First there was that groan, the sound that has become almost involuntary of late:  oh, no.  Not again . That sense of headshaki...

Anticipation, not denial, is the first step of winter by Scott Feschuk on Friday, November 16, 2012 10:26am VIEW IN CLEAN READ...

She knew it was ridiculous, she knew she was obsolete, and most of all she knew she was alone. There were days when everything just s...

The novel, the novel! Why do I set myself up like this? Why don't I just let it go? I'm like a person who has had seventeen fa...

I always try to avoid opening these things. But sooner or later, I have to. I have to get the bad news, and it isn't going to be any bet...

. . . and all the flow'rs are dyin'. . . But it isn't really fall yet. It won't be for several weeks. But we're still on...

OK. This entry just about shows you where I am spiritually, not to mention on the friendship level: I just sent an e-mail to a guy whom I a...