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February 2023

January 2023

Letter 18: On Planes, Trains and Automobiles
This wasn’t supposed to be a reflection on the 1987 John Hughes film, though as I type this sentence, I am beginning to reconsider this decision as my…
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Emily
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Letter 17: On Serendipity
It was the Friday before Christmas, and mercifully we had been let out from work at noon. With a whole afternoon before me, I was eager not to waste it…
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Emily
Letter 16: On My Year of War and Peace (Part I)
Reader! Happy New Year! It feels good to be back, stretching the old writing muscles, creaky as they may be, as we enter into 2023. So many fresh pages…
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Emily

March 2022

February 2022

Letter 13: On Doing
The sound of a voice drifts in and out, and though the language is familiar, you can’t seem to extract meaning from what is being said. You follow the…
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Emily
Interlude
Friends! It feels surreal that this little newsletter hit a dozen posts last week. I had no idea what I was doing when I started writing but I feel like…
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Emily
Letter 12: On Americans
We Canadians, from our perch here above the 49th parallel, with this watery culture of ours that we grasp at but can never fully capture, often revert…
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Letter 11: On Winter
We’ve enjoyed what has felt like the first proper winter for some time here in Toronto; in recent years, snowfalls seem to have become fewer and farther…
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Emily

January 2022

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