I live in a densely populated urban area. Traffic clogs the roads. Construction makes for long delays. I walk out onto the street and hear irate drivers leaning on their horns. As the daily commute...

I used to remember all my friend’s phone numbers. Indeed, there was a time when my working memory served a practical utility. I could pick up the phone and dial friends and family at will, no...

“Baby, please come home,” pleads Darlene Love in her Christmas classic. We can imagine Bing Crosby’s rejoinder: “I’ll be home for Christmas, you can count me.”  Every year, millions of travellers...

My wife and I have a favourite pastime. We take leisurely walks through unfamiliar neighborhoods, admiring the houses that we pass. Minimalist, modern homes tend to catch our attention. From the...

Ruby drops onto the couch, sighs as if she had been holding her breath for three days. Although only 43, fatigue traces the lines on her face, despair shades her complexion. Her vitality spent, she...

I have the habit of collecting moments of delight and wonder. These are quiet, unassuming encounters that uplift my soul and reveal the brightness of life. Sometimes I chance upon a small kindness...

In his autobiography, Speak Memory, Vladimir Nabokov wrote that “life is a slim crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” Take a fraction of that briefest spark, and we arrive at...

We are living with harrowing geopolitical uncertainty. The economy teeters on a knife’s edge. Expenses strain our accounts; prices insult our wallets. The cost of living exacts a toll on our...

It’s Earth Day. Outside my window, the leaves of oaks and maples are unfurling from buds. The air carries fragrance. The cherries and magnolias are in full bloom – an effusion of pink and white...