It’s a new year and with that comes many proclamations at every turn that we are all to start afresh and recommit to that which we want to see grow. …

Mid-afternoon on a Saturday at CityMD in Williamsburg. I sit on the edge of a cushioned chair that turns into a bed. It always reminds me of Pap smears and the dreaded duck lips no matter what the context. The doctor walks into the room and announces that I have…

Resentment is such a powerful sentiment. It’s a feeling that anyone who has experienced addiction or lived with addicts is familiar with. It can be used for a lifetime, as powerful as drugs and alcohol itself. My grandmother is 95 years old and was married to my grandfather, an alcoholic…

I started the week out with a good amount of trepidation. It was the very week, a year previous, that I nearly died. That’s heavy subject matter to be forced to look at in your own life. Even though people die every day, and we are constantly bombarded with death in the news: we tend not to grapple with our own mortality too much in the West. I am grateful to have lived…

I have always been predominantly Irish by heritage (as far as I know, at least that’s what they tell me). That equals: pasty and translucent for most of the year except for maybe two weeks at the end of August. I did live in Hong Kong as a kid but…

I remember when I first got out of the hospital and trying to navigate the rough road of trying to eat. It just didn’t really work. I tried so many different things, and my family, extended family and friends tried so many different things and tried to help in so…

Sometimes all I want to do is order a huge sushi boat, with as much raw salmon as I can possibly get my hands on; find the rawest juice in all of North America, preferably made by artisans in the most back-alley, suspect conditions; get 2-dozen oysters; a massive amount…

It was a huge victory for me, getting out of hospital this last spin round. All the incredible messages of love and prayers and the ‘feel betters’ and the ‘speedy recovery’ and the positive energy coming my way helped me to stay positive, which I succeeded at sometimes, and sometimes…

I wrote a long email to all my friends and family (who are also most of my blog readers, so you’re welcome and I’m sorry?) That was almost, radically, a week ago and I haven’t really had the time to put my mind round a proper post what-with people coming…