I have a confession to make: I am a former Catholic schoolgirl.
I’ve since been saved from the church and have been blaspheming ever since. When I heard the news that The Vatican gave Avatar a poor review and criticized the film for “flirting with modern doctrines that promote the worship of nature as a substitute for religion,” my immediate thought was, “Wow, someone’s […]
With the New Year comes new resolutions, goals you set that are meant to give your life structure and meaning against the doldrums that we call “January”, “February” and “Smarch”. We allow ourselves to indulge in so many sins during the holidays because we really believe that on January 1st, we will crawl out of […]
A friend recently sent me an article called “Why I’m Alone”. It is a response by Huffington Post columnist Lea Lane to the question she is often asked in the years following the death of her husband: Why is she still alone? Why doesn’t she date much?
While I’ve never loved and lost like Ms. Lane, I can […]
John Hughes passed away yesterday and the news made me sad and a little melancholic. You see, I was in my teens in the 80s and watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles in the movie theatres when they were released (when admission was only $4!). Hughes’ characters became very personal to me; somehow, this 30-something adult male […]
The recent spate of celebrity deaths have taken some amazing and talented people away from us.
Ed McMahon, sidekick and Publisher’s Clearing House spokesman, was part of my parent’s Tonight Show, which I shunned because my 14-year-old, punk-ass self, completely consumed with the sardonic humour of SCTV and Saturday Night Live, thought it was passé. (It was only when I bought a DVD […]
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