The vapour of love
Love is a powerful emotion but a questionable one at that. It seems it can come out of nowhere; take us out out of our sphere of day-to-day life, lift us to heights we thought we never knew, flutter...
View ArticleWhen I grow up
When I grow up, I don’t think I’ll be me. Maybe I’ll be like the nice man next door who always cleans his pool. He’s not really my next door neighbour because I don’t really live here. But when I grow...
View ArticleUnplugged
My cell phone is dead. Call it “death by assisted gravity¨. It hit the floor at a greater velocity than if it accidentally had an out of body experience. Call it frustration. Rage. Or kitchen tile...
View ArticleBursting into bloom
I bought an Amaryllis plant last Christmas, along with some paper whites. While the paper whites did their growth and fragrant magic, the Amaryllis sat there in moist dirt doing nothing, despite my...
View ArticleIn Google we trust
When I receive any mail (be it electronic or paper) containing the tax authority’s logo, I forward it to professionals (lawyers or accountants) or trusted Hungarian friends for translation, maintaining...
View ArticleGetting old in the new age
I don’t know about you but I’m getting to the point where I look at the expiry dates on my credit cards wondering, “I wonder which of us will go first?” I buy groceries and for the first time in my...
View ArticleWelcome to Reality
The trouble with normal is it only gets worse Bruce Cockburn Back in the day, before the internet, before electricity, before jet airplanes and flush toilets, I had hair. One Sunday morning in New York...
View ArticleSpiegel im Spiegel
I have not listened to this music for some time. It is a piece of music I stumbled upon. Leaving my mother after she passed away in a hospital, for some reason we stopped in downtown Vancouver. Maybe...
View ArticleEveryone is weird
You are weird. If you are not weird that means your are normal and believe me, normal is one of the weirdest things you can be. Don’t believe me? Call a psychiatrist. I’m weird. And I’m OK with that...
View ArticleI’m dreaming of a white Easter.
The first day of spring arrived and with the help of a little wind, brought us a spring-welcoming temperature feeling very much like -26C. I am writing to you from Montreal, Canada; the most...
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