I was visiting a city friend recently.
We have no oven in our shed in the bush, so the sight of someone preparing to bake was deeply satisfying.
“What are you baking?” I asked Bill, as he patted the lumpy, brown blobs. Knowing he was a vegetarian, I was prepared for lentil burgers.
“Chocolate chip cookies,” he replied, [...]
When I lived in Vancouver in 2007, teaching and managing a housing research project at the University of British Columbia, I had several interesting accommodation experiences. The first one was terrible: a chronically ill middle-aged couple with a dog who was dying of cancer. They slept with the dog and spent all day in their [...]
