I’ve got nothing exciting to talk about this week because my brain is fried. Why, you might ask? Because acting will do that to ya. Don’t worry, your brain is in no permanent danger if you come to see Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters (Toronto, Red Sandcastle Theatre). But your funny bone might…
Since I was a little girl, strangers have had trouble identifying my gender. I’m OK with that, mostly. I understand that it’s a result of the androgynous style I generally favour, of my body type and way of presenting it. Occasionally getting called “sir” by salespeople and even getting weird…
Coffee’s for closers (warning: bad language in linked video), and libraries are for last-pagers. You heard me.
Whenever you mention to someone that you’re writing a novel or script or short story, among the first questions is the inevitable “What’s it about?” I hate trying to answer this question.
Caveat: I am probably the last person who should think about math education. Not only do I have little experience teaching the subject — help-session-tutor TA-ships in algebra and calculus in undergrad — but through most of my own schooling, math came easily to me. There’s a real sense in…
Last week, I posted the first five of the ten 10 Hebrew school lessons I’ve been glad to take forward with me into my adult life. Here are numbers 6-10.
There are many things I learned in Hebrew school that no longer apply to my life, or that I choose, wilfully, to reject. I can no longer abide some Jewish thought about the differences between men and women, or between Jews and non-Jews, or between heterosexual monogamists and those of…
For my birthday this year, I asked my Ottawa friends to make me a game. See, I don’t like Apples to Apples. I find it boring — a rapid-fire barrage of concepts rather than the prompts for interesting conversations or witty jokes. That’s also part of why I dislike Cards…
(ICYMI: Part 1) Usually, I give myself an hour between waking up and needing to be out the door. I guess the nice thing about waking up on Yom Kippur is how much you don’t need to do. On Yom Kippur, you don’t have to make breakfast. You don’t have to…
“Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop,” the King of Hearts tells the eponymous heroine of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Sometimes, writing advice can feel like that. “Never submit a manuscript that isn’t polished,” we’ll read on agents’ blogs and editors’ Twitter.…