Peter Perrett is a singer I only knew vaguely until his new album was released this year. He is the contemporary of many of my favourites from the late 1970s, early 1980s, and their equal too.

To buy or not to buy (and to list or not to list), those are the questions …

A few thoughts on my grandfather’s passion for wrestling, his liver-spotted shins, and embroidered feather cushions.

Yo La Tengo’s music has been there for me for more than a quarter century now. Their new album is one of their very best and feels like an old friend checking in.

When two people were murdered on Montreal St recently, the mayor decided to blame the victims' community and change the locks. Even when it became obvious he'd got it dead wrong, he blundered on hatefully.

As the season changes and we tick into fall, market conditions here in Kingston have changed too. Here's what to expect.

I’ve been a fan of Erika Olson’s art for a long time. If you don’t know her work, your life is going to be enriched, I’m convinced, by adding her Instagram page - erikolsonstudios - to your bookmarks. Very few of her paintings, though, look like this one.

Some of the best food I’ve had, and some of the best running I’ve seen. Observations on rising above the crowd.

It was time to get help. Here’s what I did.

I visited Devon most summers as a kid, and remember (falsely?) long grasses atop a cliff above the pretty town of Teignmouth. There was a stupidly steep-fairwayed par 3 golf course up there, and this trailer, dumped on a farm east of Kingston, feels lifted from that memory,

A marvellous novel I was reading while hiding away for lunch last week.

Sometimes the saddest things are also the most beautiful things…

You usually don’t have to work too far down my neighbourhood Facebook page to find screen-grabs from someone’s home security system. Sometimes the video itself is posted, with the clock running in the top corner, as if Kiefer Sutherland is working to defuse a bomb just off-screen.

Real estate agents gather brightly, like fireflies, around disease and death. End times energize them. There is all sorts of money in the just-vacated two-up, two-downs, even with all that tired lace drooping …

As of April 2 the city can turf people from their campsites after sunrise, and keep them out until dusk. Unbelievable.

Sometimes the things you give away can come back to haunt you.

Despite the 24-7 glamour that you imagine when you think of the realtor’s lot in life, it’s not all fun and games…

I am interested in the way that life’s routines can change so completely with the simple disappearance of a person, or a restaurant, a relationship, or belief; the way water across the road can force you north.

I’d never heard of the band Future Islands. Perhaps you haven’t either. This ten-year-old video is a good place to start.

We all have those moments that surprise us because we just didn’t expect ever to experience anything quite like them. Riding a St Lawrence River ferry through a blizzard is one of those moments.