
Blameshift
A year. One lap around the sun. 365 instances of rolling out of bed and starting a fresh new day….
A year. One lap around the sun. 365 instances of rolling out of bed and starting a fresh new day….
Explosion. A word that conjures the mental image of a cartoonish ka-boom. A volcanic eruption. High schoolers losing eyebrows to…
My kids sat with heads together on the stairs, eyes intent on a phone screen. Coats and shoes forgotten, they…
Every superhero has an origin story. Bitten by a radioactive spider. Bombarded by cosmic rays. Mutated genes. Space aliens from…
Evolution is an interesting process. The theory goes that over time the optimal outcome will emerge. Billions of years after…
“What have you been wrong about? Not little stuff, like who is going to win a football competition or an…
Month-end. Year-end for that matter. I tapped balances and prices into my financial scorekeeping spreadsheet. A ritual of sorts. Tradition…
On a bitterly cold day, five-year-old me shuffled my gumboots through a pile of fallen leaves half as tall as…
“… but I can’t complain too much, given what I am paying …” Competence is a binary condition. You either…
Muffled explosions echoed throughout the neighbourhood. Fireworks. The lazy cat transmogrified from sleeping beauty to spiky ball of panic in…
The other day I was chatting with a lovely guy who managed to blow my mind. He earned a living…