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January 2012

  • Playing with fire

    I loved how neighbours would dash from their bungalows as the delicate licks of flame danced with the wind across the tips of sun-browned April field weed. One little spark could become a rapidly…

  • Floor it.

    There's great submission in lying down. We accept things are the way they are because of the construction that provides the input. You and I may not be able to agree on how to…

  • Oral confessions in the big chair

    As she was packing up, Leslie volunteered that she thought red wine was probably my biggest current oral foe (something I'm painfully aware of lately). Maybe this is TMI, but I chew nuts on…

  • Things you should think twice about sharing

    Don’t you just wonder: If you have a “toothbrush jar,” what does it indicate about your other choices and preferences? Do people who share a toothbrush also do joint chequing? Is the inverse true?…

  • She didn’t implode, thank God.

    Alison looked nervous, but there was little I could do about it. She had picked the swarthy French guy as her buddy, so fixing up her hoses wasn’t my responsibility. By that point we…