A friend of mine from my writers’ group recently inspired me to join a weekly life-drawing session with her at the Nepean Sportsplex. It’s been more than thirty years since I did any life drawing. Back in high school, you could have found me, on any given day, huddled over a large sheet of pastel [...]
The new world of downtime
Now that the main part of summer is behind us, my very first summer as a self-employed person, I’ve had some time to reflect on how downtime is different for me now. As an employee, I could pretty much count on going home every Friday evening and not coming back till Monday morning. I’d have [...]
