It’s a grey day. Not so cold as it might be, but grey. The sidewalks have turned into miniature glaciers, and you have to walk up a treacherous hill to get to class. Shuffling penguin-like over the ice flows, you bend your head, eyes fixed on the grey, gritty patches of concrete peeking through. It’s [...]
It began as a quest for Sense and Sensibility. My roommate and I had a rare night off from rehearsing (for this play—Montrealers, take note) and were in dire need of some Austen. Apparently, we also in dire need of some food, because we returned from the journey with a chicken purchased on the spur [...]
There are days when life starts hurtling forward at breakneck speed while you pant behind choking on dust. Days when you have everything to do and no time to do it, days when you wish desperately that time-turners from Harry Potter were real, days when the last thing on your mind is taking the time [...]
Have you ever had a great idea? An original, knock-your-socks-off idea that makes you want to run to the nearest phone and tell everyone you know while simultaneously recording your insight in a groundbreaking paper or applying for a patent? And then you discover that the idea isn’t new at all? These date balls are [...]
Winter has finally descended on Montreal. The snow suddenly remembered that it is supposed to fall this time of year, and coated the ground with a thick mantle of downy white powder. Public transport became sporadic, walking an adventure. The unseasonably warm temperatures we’ve been enjoying plummeted. Now the air is so crisply clear it [...]
A lot of the people I know went through food phases when they first moved out on their own. Dealing with a new life—school, work, commuting, bills, landlords, freak blizzards—is overwhelming, and a fairly natural response is to seek comfort in routine. Even if that routine is a bit ridiculous, like eating exactly the same [...]
I’ve been wanting to try my hand at homemade Eggs Benedict ever since I tasted them for the first time last Easter. It was a chilly April morning—not the -30°C of six weeks earlier, but still a nippy 14° or so. Nevertheless, practical being that I am, I had declared spring with a summery dress [...]
Is there anything more wonderful than fresh bread? Oh, probably, but it’s definitely up there. I’ve always been fortunate enough to live near excellent bakeries. I love walking in on a chilly day and being enveloped by the warm, yeasty air, seeing the crackle-crusted loaves in neat rows, baguettes bundled together like umbrellas in a [...]
The new year begins in a hush. The hustle and bustle of the holidays has died away, leaving behind a somewhat melancholy peace. In theory, the days are getting longer, but they’re also getting colder. I look out the window at the grey skies and bare trees, pull my shawl closer around my shoulders, and [...]
