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 1^st, 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 […]

Barack Hussein Obama, an African-American and son of a goat-hearder from Kenya, was sworn in as the 44^th President of the United States of America.
Read that sen­tence a few times and savour its de­li­cious­ness as it rolls off your tongue. In a coun­try whose iden­tity was shaped in large part by slavery, racism and a blind fear of the different, this is truly a mo­men­tous and his­toric occasion. Only a cold, cold heart could […]

We in­ter­rupt reg­u­lar blog­ging for a spe­cial an­nounce­ment…
I was ap­proached by my BFF Daniela Saioni (and I don’t use that term loosely — we’ve been best friends for over 30 years!) to vol­un­teer my pub­lic re­la­tions skills (such as they are) to a fundraiser she is or­ga­niz­ing called StandUp For Your Sisters. I am proud to be as­so­ci­ated with this project because […]

I wrote this ar­ti­cle for the November 2008 is­sue of Ontario Dentist, the jour­nal of the Ontario Dental Association. The sub­ject of the piece, Dr. Mike Lococo, is a won­der­ful man who is try­ing to make a dif­fer­ence in his com­mu­nity. I have pub­lished this on my blog with the per­mis­sion of Ontario Dentist.
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Dr. Mike Lococo Lights up Niagara […]