Category Archives: Literary Diversions
100 Thousand Poets For Change
Beverly Akerman, whose list story, “What I’ve Prayed For” was published in Issue 114 (and later in her collection, The Meaning Of Children), wrote to tell me about 100 Thousand Poets for Change. The event intrigued me, so I asked her to tell me, and you, more about it. Take it away Beverly… Though I’ve [...]
Poetry Bomb!
Kitchener/Waterloo, especially in uptown/downtown (that’s right, it’s a forward slash kind of community), is awash in knit/crochet graffiti. Not only is an unexpected burst of colour delightfully smile-provoking, I appreciate that: 1. someone has taken the time to share their craft in a way that requires stealth, speed and skill, and that 2. it is [...]
Unlucky in Love
Although I wouldn’t describe myself as unlucky in love (at the moment), I nevertheless hate everything about Valentines Day except the cheap chocolate on February 15th. That is why I’m entertained by Ebar’s “antidote to Valentine’s Day”: a night of stories celebrating the “romantically unlucky,” scheduled for Saturday, February 13th, 7-9pm. The night will feature [...]
Psssst. Pass it on…
We’ve all experienced it. Something crosses your desk that you feel compelled to share: a funny photo, a great quote, an insightful magazine article. Something about it has fired you up and you want to spread the flames. It happened to me recently with a student’s assignment. Not my student—but a student’s assignment that was [...]
Distractible People Are More Creative
Yes, really, according to Wired Magazine. As part of a study led by both Harvard and U of T, one hundred Harvard undergraduates were given a test designed to measure their level of “latent inhibition”—the capacity to ignore seemingly-irrelevant stimuli, like the sound of a refrigerator running, or the conversation going on two tables over. [...]
Be “the star of the story” (…again!)
Well, they’ve finally done it—made an app of the classic Choose Your Own Adventure series, I mean (what else?): Return to the Cave of Time – in which the reader can journey through the ages using “all of your numerous talents and much of your enormous intelligence to avoid disaster, even death” – was launched [...]
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