
Sometimes you get what you need
Sometimes in life, pleasant surprises come out of nowhere. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that you will find precisely what it...
A rumination on life, parenting, sports and fitness
Sometimes in life, pleasant surprises come out of nowhere. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that you will find precisely what it...
The mindset of training is incredibly visionary, and incredibly myopic all at once – and you must make good use of both of those to have...
The struggle is real. So very real. The re-opening of society is in full bloom in Montreal, sort of. We remain beset by liability...
July 13 is the date. Normally, at this time of the year, North American cinemas would be rife with moviegoers and summer blockbuster...
In life, I have always struggled with transition times. Whether something is beginning, or something new is ending, I have always found...
I’m an emotional being. For me, being emotional is like breathing. Something happens to me? My reaction is 100 per cent emotional. I get...
When I was a kid, I remember extended periods of mind-numbing boredom interspersed with moments of sheer jubilation. There didn’t seem to...
It has been a brutal 12 weeks for me. It’s been horrendous in many, many ways, not the least of which was my perceived worthlessness and...
8:15 p.m.Roger Goodell welcomes everyone to a virtual draft. Says he'll miss the hugs and the interactions with fans. Instead, he gets...
Cole and I sat down at the table and tried, as best we could, to predict how the NFL Draft, whose first round will be held tomorrow night...
Week 2 of the quarantine has come to an end and I don’t even know what to do with myself anymore. Today is Friday, which means I worked...
It makes me feel pretty good to know that Canada is doing all that it can to support its population during this time of self-quarantine...
The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is freedom from quarantine, but it;s going to be a while yet. It's day 3 of house arrest, sort...
My daughter grows more feral in her room every day. She stays there all day and comes out at night, like a teenage vampire, and junk food...
When we stop to consider what appears to be a worldwide pandemic on a scale the vast majority of humans on the planet have never seen...
The celebration of the winter solstice is a long-standing pagan tradition, that, like Halloween, has been co-opted into a number of...
It doesn’t take much sometimes, does it? A friend reminded me recently that there were but three weeks left until Spring, and that was a...
There’s a line in a great film from two decades back that told the story of a budding 15-year-old journalist who was writing a magazine...
Can you feel it? The snow is starting to melt and life is about to get great again. The heavy coats, the large, bulky hoodies and the...
So, I’ve been fighting depression on and off basically since I began this bodybuilding thing; some weeks were OK, while other weeks were...