Pickle Me This

I’ve been valuing the experience of a literary deep dive since two recent

On Monday I was #DefinitelyThriving in Muskoka with the very best road trip crew—my kids! Stops at Manticore Books in Orillia and Cedar Canoe Books in Bracebridge for book signings and book BUYINGS. And Webers, of course. And then to beautiful Port Ca...

It just so happened that I ran out of things to do on Friday afternoon, which is a situation that I don’t encounter very often, and it also just so happened that I had a hammock and a copy of Ann Patchett’s new book,

Last weekend—as wildfires continued to burn across British Columbia—was a strange and uncanny time to finish reading Liz Johnston’s debut novel, which ends with a 2020 forest fire forcing a fractured family back together again after decades apart. The story starts...

A bee visits my garden!

1) Last night, just before a sold-out production of Twelfth Night in High Park, the family of a woman called Shoshannah started singing her “Happy Birthday.” By the end of the first line of the song, the entir...