Flipping the bird
Getting the finger from an 8 year. Is that funny or fucked up? When you work with kids you learn it can be both. Sometimes it has to be. Her…
Category: Notes
These are ramblings, repeated wisdom and everything else. Possibly a blog.
One day and then another
This past week was pretty hard for me. Even after sixteen years of working with vulnerable kids, kids beaten up by poverty, cultural genocide and addiction, it is still hard…
Things I want to know about you: Photographs
The publishing contract says I need 12 photographs. 12 photographs. It doesn’t seem like a lot. My agent says Do you have any photos from the commune? No? What about…
Blue (pill) Christmas
That year my room-mate Francois was a med school drop out who was studying pharmacology, both academically and personally. He had drugs for waking up, falling asleep, calming down and…
Before the Revolution
My memoir “Before the Revolution” will be published by Knopf Random House Canada in spring 2016. I am represented by Trena White, associate agent with the Transatlantic Agency and principal…
2013 in review
I said when I started writing my memoir about my radical childhood that I would decide at the end of it if I wanted to be a writer or not.…