Cultural Exchange

Does this outfit make me look non-essential? The nice lady from Queen’s Park who leaves me instructional voicemails says there’s no need for me to come back to work this week AT ALL. Not tomorrow. Not the day after. Not until Monday. I feel liberated, yet at loose ends. All my amigos are back in […]

Little Drummer Boy

I have heard some terrible, awful things in my time. But nothing to date — not death cries, not break-up speeches, not the sound of my own wrist breaking into splinters on impact with a wooden beam — compared to tonight. Picture, if you can, little orphan Annie. Now picture her with double D breasts […]