Why Bookstores Are Still Like A Second Home

Bookstores have always been like a second home to me, especially the used ones with dusty books that lingered on someone else’s bookshelf for long periods of time, before they decided it was time to get rid of them. I was born with a poor sense of smell but...

Interview Etiquette For Writers

I remember my first time interviewing someone. Back then I was an intern at Ryerson University’s Eyeopener Newspaper, an indie, left- wing newspaper that’s unapologetically edgy, and I was only 16 or 17 years old. It was an internship I scored through my...

Lokafy

This past month I joined an ambitious, Toronto and Paris based start-up called Lokafy.  Lokafy is a rare, refreshing perspective on travel, I don’t see or hear about enough. Lokafy is a opprotunity to work with a dedicated, intelligent, competent team of...

What is Dyspraxia?

I’ve had Dyspraxia my entire life. First of all I require one thing out of you the reader: no pity. When you live 23 out of 23 years of your life with something, and are well aware of the fact that you’ll always have to live with it, unless some sort of...

Scatterbrain

This piece is a poem called “scatterbrain”. It was written in a class where nothing was happening, very few people actually came, and there was a supply teacher and I guess because of the unusual circumstances and the state of mind I was hit with a wave of...