For reasons that I hope are obvious, I’ve tried to avoid getting too involved in the current debate about gang violence. If I’ve failed here and there, it’s because I worry that the conversation’s being commandeered by all the wrong people for all the wrong reasons. Our city feels lousy with politicians all of the […]

My daughter’s almost six months old now, and she’s becoming much more engaged with the world around her. She can lay on her back with a rattle or a toy in her hands for minutes on end, exploring it with quiet fascination. She’s much the same way with faces, and especially with the faces she […]

Hello and welcome to the women of the world and the men who aren’t afraid of them! If you’ve arrived here because of my interview with Stephanie Guthrie for Dork Shelf, then I’d like to thank you very much for visiting. It’s been making the rounds in a rather big way because of your shares, […]

I’m reading a rather terrific book right now called Equally Shared Parenting. It’s based on the idea of creating a life with your partner that allows for as much balance and equality as possible, in whatever ways you choose to define them. It’s about bucking traditional gender roles – which are generally just as unfair […]

Big thanks to everyone who came out to last night’s edition of Everyone’s a DJ. We had a great crop of people, including some rookies and newbies, and we had a lot of fun with a flexible schedule and a wide range of music. I’m glad you all could be there! Special thanks to those […]

After months of struggling to stay on top of Everyone’s a DJ as effectively as I did before my daughter came along, I’ve officially gone as far as I can go. Tonight’s edition will be a good one, but not because I put a lot of work into it. In fact, in the four years and […]

My brother started blogging again this week, after more than a year away from his website, and he’s already off to a great start. Check out his post on Daniel Tosh and the unfortunate rape joke debacle; it’s a terrific take on the free speech issue from a comedian’s perspective, and it’s been making the […]

While cleaning out some old feed items tonight, I discovered that back in the first week of June, the Toronto Star quoted me in an article about the city’s plastic bag ban. Mind you, when I say “quoted,” I mean they reprinted something I’d said on Twitter. Actually, if you want to get technical, they […]

It’s been a very long time since I visited Google Analytics to see how this site’s been doing. When I logged in tonight, I discovered that I’ve got little to no data on file from the end of May onward. I figure a plugin update at around that time must have knocked things out of […]

As many of you know, the success of my good friend Neil Pasricha and his critically-acclaimed, bestselling Book of Awesome series is rooted in a blog called 1000 Awesome Things, which he launched in June 0f 2008. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the feed for Neil’s blog, which had been quiet since he’d […]