My love affair with the coffee bean started almost 30 years ago in one of those restaurants by the highway. The kind with the massive parking lots lined with Kenworths, Macks and Peterbilts. The air infused with the heady perfume of diesel and the adrenalin pumping sound of air brakes going whoosh in the night. [...]

Apophis is a 390 metre celestial body once predicted as having a pretty good chance of kissing our beloved Earth on the cheek in 2036. Like we didn’t have enough to worry about, what with the recession, the Swine flu and Tim Horton’s raising the price of coffee by five whole cents. For awhile odds [...]

I have spent a great deal of time feeling sorry for Tuesdays. It seemed like such a nothing day. It’s like being the middle child of seven kids. Every other day of the week is lauded for some reason or another, but poor old Tuesday just gets lost in the shuffle. Some cultures even think [...]

Anne of Green Gables is one of my favourite books. Growing up a red head in a sea of blondes and brunettes, I could identify with Anne’s trials of having red hair. I was frequently taunted at school with liners such as, “Hey, ketchup head!” or “Did someone forget to bring you in out of [...]