Springtime is beaming in the parks of Calgary, and the gentle beauty of the Canadian West is once more radiating from the ground. Seeking fresh air and a retreat from the indoors, I wandered to Lindsay Park and had an excruciatingly pleasant afternoon.
With the indoor Devonian Gardens out of service indefinitely, you’ve probably been looking for a good garden to lunch in on the cold, dreary days. The Nexen Building is one d-spot that so far has been filling in the role quite nicely. Continue reading »
When the heart grows lonely, desperation can drive you to drinking. I opened another beer and sat at the kitchen table. My roommate Victor was also drinking, and the discussion of my singledom had come up.
“The kind of girl I’d like would probably be pretty bookish. Maybe I should just hang around libraries?” It sounded creepy, but ideas and options had to be entertained before being put down. “How’d you find your girlfriend?” Continue reading »
While writing for the Gauntlet, I had a disastrous phone interview with Henry Rollins (of Black Flag and Henry Rollins Band fame). I had been so psyched to interview him that I skipped a class during mid-term season. Lesson learned? Don’t ever talk to your heroes: it will ruin you. I made a list of some other lessons I learned on that catastrophic phone interview: Continue reading »
I read Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention