I don’t know. It seemed like a good idea at the time. I hadn’t seen her for a couple of years, at least. Frankly, I had lost count of the number of months that had gone by since I’d last spoken face-to-face with my daughter. Other than on Skype of course. Skype is the poor [...]
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Hijacked City-Boy
Posted: September 15, 2011 in humor, LifeTags: are we there yet?, Canoe, canoeing, even more pain, excruciating pain, fear, pain, pain where you feel like you want to die but can't, panic, Portage, really bad pain, Skype, the things we do for love
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One Sunny Morning
Posted: September 11, 2011 in LifeTags: 9/11, America, anger, Bush, Canada, grief
That fateful morning, I was grumbling, because I was late for work. My office was 50 km. (30 miles) away and I had to wait for the next city to city commuter bus. Funny what you remember, isn’t it? The little things. The bus air conditioning was freezing, almost unbearable. I remember cursing inwardly, because [...]
Might Be Goy
Posted: August 22, 2011 in dating, humor, Life, living, romanceTags: apartment, artistic license, climate control, dating, humor, Jewish, living, water pressure
Have to admit: since moving in to the new place I find I’m falling more and more in heavy like with it. Not yet willing to pilot the boat to the end of the Tunnel of “Love” just yet. Give it time. Oh there are a few little annoyances. Like the fact that the laundry [...]
Rocky Romances
Posted: August 19, 2011 in dating, humor, LifeTags: broken hearts, drinking, Life, Monday, romance, weekend, wild
Look, Monday. You can’t keep showing up on my doorstep. Every time you do, you say the same thing. “We can make it work.” And, “I promise you, this time I won’t mess you up. I’ll set the alarm this time. Make you some coffee.” Every time, I let you in, and every time – [...]
Summer Sponge
Posted: July 29, 2011 in Life, livingTags: clubs, conversations, David Bowie, flirting, night, summer, walking, warmth
Everywhere you go, you hear complaints about the heat this summer. You understand. You’ve walked out into the oven blast usually experienced by workers at pizza shops. Your shirt soaked with sweat testifies to the minimal movement required to raise your temperature. But when the night comes and the summer breeze washes your face….. well isn’t [...]
People Soup
Posted: July 21, 2011 in Life, livingTags: aboriginals, behaviour, father, homeless, homosexuality, Toronto, weird
People here are fascinating. And not in a “gee, what wonderfully intellectual stimulation” sense. I mean behaviours are just so far outside of what I consider “the norm” that time chases its own tail trying to keep up. Toronto is defined from the mix of its people who make their way here from all [...]
Release
Posted: June 24, 2011 in humor, Life, living, writingTags: divorce, living, marriage, taxi, writing
The capricious breeze sauntered carelessly through his stubborn hair, pushing this way and that until the dogged gel that was holding everything together finally sighed, shrugged its shoulders and gave up. Whereupon, the follicle company, mimicking the primordial warrior dance of the galaxies, began its mad performance. The hair’s owner, oblivious to the upper level [...]
Evaporate Into The Light
Posted: June 16, 2011 in LifeTags: dream, dreaming, Jitterbug Perfume, living, martyr, The Machine
The average looking girl, with her dirty blond hair in ponytail and harried face slips into the subway car and into her seat without anyone giving her notice. She’s not participating in the collective consciousness of the riders. She may as well not even be there. At the next stop, a guy walks in, clad in jeans [...]
Move
Posted: June 11, 2011 in Life, livingTags: Life, movers, moving, sometimes you pay good money for stress avoidance
There’s a certain senseless joy that comes unexpectedly sometimes. A sense that everything is ridiculously OK. Better than OK. Good. Better than good – but precise words escape you. Recently, this happened during what would have been an otherwise stressful time. Mind you, part of the catalyst for this was planned. Years ago, when I [...]
A Stupendous Evening of Absolutely Nothing
Posted: May 24, 2011 in LifeTags: boisterous patrons, cute servers, drinking, reading
The slim dark-haired girl with the slight sexy figure wrapped in the tight little black dress sauntered over to the table. “Well, hello” she said. ”What can I get you?” The patron smiled. He was a sucker for pretty faces. “Just a Chardonnay for now, thanks.” “Sure. Be right back.” She turned and sauntered way, [...]
Longing for The Rapture – or a Heart Attack
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Life, livingTags: depression, divorce, dogma, Jitterbug Perfume, Life, The Rapture
So we’ve come through the weekend and no rapture has occurred. No planes fell out of the sky, pilotless, no suddenly empty chairs at restaurants, no sets of clothes sitting on park benches, no empty operating tables, with nurses and doctors scratching their heads, wondering where the open heart surgery patient went. For most of [...]
It’s funny: when you take pride in being unique, there are little things that poke you in the back to prove you are not. That you’re just another variation on a common theme. Like words, for example. I like words a lot, even though I find myself sometimes frustrated at the dearth of just the [...]
I’m going to invent a new type of discipline. Going to call it Wolf-Yoga – or something else as equally narcissistic. It won’t be anything like the usual types of yoga (not that I’m all that aware of the various types of yoga). It won’t be a stretching-get-in-touch-with-your-pancreas type of exercise. Its main source [...]
Don’t know about you but the next time someone in real life starts a sentence that starts “Wolf, you should…” I’m going to pay real close attention. Probably the first thing out of my mouth will be “why?” Followed by “why?” And the answer would be followed by “yes, but why?” Like some snot-nosed little [...]
You need to understand: she would not have approved this post. It wasn’t her style. She was not a braggart – about herself or any of her kids. She preferred actions to speak for themselves. She’s not here to stop me. And it’s a post I’ve wanted to write for quite some time – [...]
Evolution of the TV Adult Male
Posted: April 3, 2011 in entertainment, humor, show business, writingTags: actors, characters, Charlie Runkle, comedies, commercials, Hank Moody, men in show business, scripts, writing
Ever since getting into show business (going to commercial auditions, getting up on stage to do comedy improv work), I’ve been told to brace myself because the only popular roles for men are characters who are idiots and clowns. The stereotypical dad, personified by people like Elliot Gould, who played Monica and Ross’ socially clueless [...]
Real or Nicely Dressed Scam
Posted: March 30, 2011 in humor, LifeTags: fake, I_just_want_your_money_is_that_too_much_to_ask, NOTREAL, scam
Having become completed disgusted with the (lack of) water pressure in my apartment, and having gotten so tired of uselessly swearing at the severe temperature swings when trying to have a shower, I decided to explore the internet for some decent apartments. I want a step up this time, and want not just good consistent [...]
Paradigm Delight
Posted: March 20, 2011 in Life, religionTags: acceptance, church on a hill, God, Life, music, religion
I’ve tried to write about this before, and have never felt that I’ve been able to do it justice. Now that it’s 3:00 a.m. and there’s a virus keeping me awake, maybe I can form the right thoughts a little better. You can be the judge. When you grow up in a fairly strict Roman [...]
He sat at a table in the bar, a glass of white wine in his right hand, nothing particular on his mind. The door opened, and a draft of icy air wafted through the place, pushing the warmth on tip-toes into the far reaches of the corners. Two men followed, grating laughter blatting forth, the [...]
