Aug. 22, 2014 I am very territorial, which is to say: I like my spot. And when I say “like”, I mean really, really like, as in, should...

Aug. 19, 2014 I kept parakeets for years, beginning with Little Bugger, a green budgie who was my parents’ sixteenth birthday gift to...

Sept. 12, 2014 When I was thirteen, I used to dog sit for my brother and sister-in-law’s terrier during thunder storms. She was so...

Sept. 16, 2014 Summers were brutal in the Piedmont when I was a girl; I suspect they still are. Because my family spent the months of...

Sept. 26, 2014 Today is the Autumnal Equinox 2014. Actually, today is Monday and this post is scheduled to be published on Friday so, by...

Oct. 10, 2014 When National Geographic’s Genographic Project was all shiny and new, my husband Ken and I joined 678,632 other...

Oct. 17, 2014 On Oct. 14, 2005, my spectacular mother, Martha Nell Hardy, died. I was with her when she passed away, for which I am...

Oct. 24, 2014 I In 1978 I had a one-year-long junior fellowship at the Dumbarton Oaks Centre for Byzantine Studies in the Georgetown...

Oct. 31, 2014 When I was a kid, Halloween ranked right up there with Christmas as the best holiday ever. You got to dress up in costumes...

Nov. 7, 2014 For non-Canadians and Americans who do not listen to NPR, Jian Ghomeshi is . . . was a popular radio host with the Canadian...

Nov. 14, 2014 On October 22, 2014 a lone gunman, jihad on the brain, murdered a young reservist standing honour guard at the Canadian...

Nov. 21, 2014 When I was a teenager growing up on the Unto These Hills Actors Compound, our choreographer, no lover of the ladies, used...

Nov. 28, 2014 My mother took a dim view of people who, in her words, "enjoyed ill health,” which meant that, any time I sought to be...

Dec. 5, 2014 Where to begin in discussing the murders of Michael Brown and Eric Gardner? I am beyond angry and, were it not for the fact...

Jan. 2, 2015 A couple I knew, determined to not succumb to the rampant commercialization that has, of recent decades, utterly...

Jan. 30, 2015 Lately, random things that happened decades ago pop into my head for no good reason and I think, “Where have you been...

Feb.20, 2015 A painting that used to hang in the halls of Knox College at the University of Toronto was the inspiration for the painting...

Mar. 6, 2015 Because of my recent blog post He Is Not Here. His Feet Are There, I’ve been thinking a lot about angels – specifically...

Mar. 12, 2015 I do not like brain games, perhaps because I'm a bear of very little brain and prefer to use the limited powers in my...

Mar. 20, 2015 The other day I was picking up dog food at the vet's when a character straight out of Duck Dynasty slouched through the...