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Pierogi Day
With a trembling hand, I set down the pierogi I had been holding. I’d said it. I took another sip of my beer, a warm flush spreading across my body slowly like the crawl of CAT scan contrast through veins. My heart beat into my…
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The Trolley
I sat in her office. Again. I was anxious to get this over with so we could go check out the trolley on display outside. The Ziggy calendar on her desk read April or May, 1991. The room smelled like old lunch. The leather cushion…
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Castles in the sky
On October 2nd, 2025, the House Citizenship and Immigration Committee of the Canadian House of Commons deliberated bill C-3, a bill intended to address an earlier judicial ruling. The Bjorkquist Ruling of December 19, 2023, found that Canadian immigration rules had unconstitutionally restricted citizenship to…
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The Land of Make Believe
It was some cold winter day in 1981 or 1982… as a three year old I didn’t really have a firm grasp on the calendar yet. I only knew it was after breakfast, and before lunch, and I was in my favorite place- curled up…
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What 500 Interviews Taught Me
The other day, while interviewing a candidate for my team, it occurred to me that I’ve probably conducted somewhere between four and five hundred interviews over the course of my career. I’ve directly hired well over a hundred people, and considering that most hires involve…
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Wrapping up Pride Month, 2026
Well, pride month is wrapping up. In the past few years I have used it as an opportunity for growth- to do the scary things when I have the most visible communal support to console me if it doesn’t go well. This year I probably…