Writing and Editing

Sunlight streams down on my kitchen table. Eight and a half minutes earlier, 93 million miles away, these photons left the surface of the sun. These photons were created deep below the sun’s surface, where hydrogen, crushed by the Sun’s …

Dear Friends, I woke up in Dublin. I didn’t know how I got there. I was wearing a space suit. As movie premises go, this would probably do for The Hangover Part VI. But this wasn’t the movies. This was …

I once made my science teacher cry. As a teen, I devoured chemistry and (especially) physics like a fiend – I had no doubt then that I would one day be a scientist. A double PhD in astrophysics and mathematics, …

I’m stirring in my own interpretations of this week’s blottes to get the ball rolling. Don’t let my reading colour your own, though: Every human-blotte interaction is unique. Blotte 1 I got this cup at The Gabardine, a Toronto bistro …