About five years ago, I started working on, what I called, a Collection of Recollections. I would sit down at my typewriter and write about something from my past. It was usually about people. …

About a year ago, I started making pens. It was entirely new to me. I love it. My interest in woodworking has continued to grow since then and I have everything to learn at each turn. Most recently, I’ve been attempting to make boxes. The successes are small and the…

I don’t like celebrating my birthday. I can get pretty grumpy about it and just want to be left well alone. Last year, the “birthday committee” at work sent out…

Procrastination is proportional to priority. My priorities are measured against an arbitrary standard of interest. What I’ll procrastinate on is entirely dependent on my mood. I’ve noticed that I’ll respond to my parents’ text messages quicker when they ask me to do something than when they are just checking in…

French. Being a Canadian who has lived in a predominantly French-speaking province and who works in a bilingual school, I really should know how to speak the language. I’ve even…

Soon after getting my first car, I would drive to a neighbouring town to smoke cigarettes. It became a regular habit of mine. It was easier for me to stay awake later back then. One night, on my way to finish off my night before heading home, “Wonderwall” by Oasis…

Stationery. If I buy you a pen, I must really like you. Over the years, I’ve given away a good few pens. People tend to come in and out of my life. A few have stuck around. I don’t know what’s happened to any of those pens. Notebooks are okay…

The problem with most of the lies that I tell myself is that I think most of them are, in fact, truths. What I believe to be true and what other people believe to be true can differ and that’s when things get a bit confusing. My self-perception is put…

I vaguely remember writing in my notebook that I wanted to be a “thinker” when I grew up. My cousin is a Philosophy professor and I thought it’d be really cool to be like him. I ended up studying Philosophy in university but I wasn’t able to pursue it further. …