Achieve spiritual enlightenment, spend OSAP funds extravagantly.

Ultimately, in deliberate spite of all known theories about the body and soul, if this is what it means to be truly happy and healthy, bring it on.

Twelve years since the accident and she still felt as if everyone around her just knew.

The other day when temps hit a balmy 7 degrees, we went street shooting in spring clothes and I immediately noticed that there were a lot more smiles on faces than usual, including my own. It\’s funny how violent crime supposedly increases with warmer temperatures, at least in Chicago. But somehow I doubt this trend [...]

If you are in a relationship and on good terms with your significant other, and for some bizarre reason you, at 7 p.m. on Valentine\’s Day, haven\’t yet so much as mentioned what day it is today to that person (even if only out of scorn for what is to you simply another goddamn corporate [...]

There comes a sudden moment of awareness for reality and he finds his own reflection hard to believe. This entire time he\’s been caught up in the moment, the impulse, the action. But now it\’s like someone has flipped a switch, interrupting his spell. It\’s not an unpleasant feeling to see himself in the mirror [...]

Halfway there. A moment of reflection before putting away the scissors and plugging in the shaver. This feels good.

So my roommate Nick spontaneously decided to shave his head last night. Here are the text messages exchanged some time prior to this fairly remarkable event. Nick: Do we have a shaver at the house? Me: Like a razor? Nick: Like for shaving my head. Electrical kind. Me: Why would you shave your head, Nicholas. [...]

The toddler is having more fun than all the other people in this photo combined.

Discipulus frigus: a warm-blooded mammal commonly found on the streets of downtown Toronto. Relies on weak peripheral vision to navigate snowy and treacherous terrain. Diet consists of Starbucks coffee, free dailies, English literature, and bad reality TV. Sound waves emitted by an electronic device permanently attached to its ear, as well as frequent trips to [...]