“So where do you know the Birthday Girl from? Yoga?” Given that the Birthday Girl was a yoga teacher and…
Meetings with People
The Family Father
One thing was clear: it was perfect weather for cycling. That’s to say, it wasn’t. It was already hot despite…
The Audience Member
One thing was clear: my conversation partner wasn’t used to being addressed in a theatre by a strange man. My…
Thank You for Sharing
It was an arts-and-crafts place. I have no idea what I was doing in there. As something of a pathological…
Two Brothers and Another
The brothers talked politics. Incessantly. And not just any old politics either, but local politics – local to their Canadian…
The Commuter
“An hour a day, one way.” And that over a length of a decade. The period of time some people…
The Hobby Photographer
Returning to the car, I noticed him – a man in a blue suit crouching over a bush. Of course…
The Professor
“So what do you lecture in.” It looked as if the man who’d just outed himself as a professor was…
The Researcher
There are people in this world who are doing some incredibly valuable work – like research into ovarian cancer. That’s a…
The (Former) Guitarist
It sounds like it’s got all the makings of a human tragedy: a great guitarist has a stroke and loses…