We have this bizarre custom here in Canada:  If somebody pushes you, shoves you, steps on your toes, YOU say sorry.  Whether it’s an accident or an act of deliberate malevolence on their part, you must say sorry when you are affronted.  That is part of Canada’s unspoken code of social conduct.
I do not abide […]

I have formulated a scientific hypothesis. Put on your thinking caps and don’t doze off, because after the academic stuff I’ll be talking about boobs.
One day I was watching Allan Gregg in Conversation on TVO. Psychiatrist and Medical Researcher Norman Doidge spoke on neural plasticity in relation to memory, stroke, Alzheimer’s, etc. and […]

Joni Mitchell got me thinking.
It takes more than the usual Swan Lake slippers and tutus to get me to the ballet. I don’t understand narrative in motion. I need words. That’s why I’m a writer. So when my dear friend invited me to The Fiddle and The Drum, I almost passed.
“No, you […]

This article originally appeared in the British pop culture e-zine Nuts4chic. I am Nuts4chic’s sex columnist.
Here’s something you don’t read every day. The headline was surreal: Two Women Report Ghost Has Been Having Sex With Them.
Two women in Washington State in the U. S. claimed that a ghost ” has been placing sensors on their […]

Regardless of the reason we begin to put words to “paper” — whether it’s to quiet the voices in our heads or to take the edge off pain — the moment we choose to share the fruits of our imaginations with an audience of any size, self-stimulation is added to the mix.  Even when we’re […]

photo credit: gruntzooki
Are you superstitious?
Because it’s come around again - Friday the 13th! Thankfully, we can only run across this day three times a year, so if you’re really afraid, just take off work and stay in bed!
Do I think the number 13 is unlucky? And the 13th of Friday especially unlucky? Well, let’s […]

What’s normal sex? And who defines it? Is it a majority rule sort of thing, dependent on social norms? Back in the 1950’s, homosexuality was considered “abnormal” enough to be listed as a disorder in the DSM (The Diagnostics and Statistics Manual… The Psychiatrist’s Bible, if you will…) It was removed in the […]