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Signs, bedbugs and homelessness

I’m a sign-reader. I can’t pass a post that has signage without at least glancing at it. I’m particuarly drawn to signs of the non-professional genre. Handwritten signs are my favourite, then photocopied handwritten signs, then home computer signs. Big multi-coloured professionally-designed signs don’t really interest me.

Lately there have been an awful lot of […]

Do you buy lottery tickets?

I don’t often buy lottery tickets, but every now and then when the jackpot gets high enough that people are talking about it, I get swept up in lottery fever. What I like about it is that for $2 I get to fantasize about being rich and generous, with some possibility of it coming true. […]

The reluctant house-hunter

My friends are trying to convince me to buy a house. I want a house, really I do. I just don’t want to live in the kind of house I can afford. Richard thinks I’d be better off buying a house than contributing to an RRSP – and he’s one of Canada’s leading experts […]

Early morning excitement on Somerset Street

So this morning as I was walking to work I arrived at a burning rooming house at the same time as the firefighters. The man who walks the dog who carries the muffin bag home from the muffin store was there before me, because he was the one who called 9-1-1.

I just happened to […]