Harry Fisher won one game in the big leagues of baseball, pitching for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the summer of 1952. That makes him an asterisk in sports history. But of course he was much more than that, and a few years ago, I wrote about Harry’s baseball career in an e-book for The Toronto Star. […]
I’m a big advocate of writers carrying notebooks. You can jot down thoughts, overheard conversations—I’m a terrible eavesdropper—sights you want to call up later. Recently, a father was trying to coax his daughter out of a car parked on our street. “If you could move at any speed beyond painfully slow, that would be very […]
A day and a half in Sedona: it wasn’t much time, but our hockey team had gone to Arizona for a tournament, and we made the most of our days off. The pools at our hotels, the hot tubs, the meditation classes and massages. Then there were the hikes. For me, hiking involves looking for […]