I  have been battling an ongoing detached retina problem in my left eye since the beginning of March. I have found the past five months though far more difficult than the five months following a little bit of open-heart surgery that I had pre-Covid in November 2019. Like so many things, we take health related…

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I have had a storage locker in Toronto on and off over the past 20 years. And I just climbed back into my chair after falling off having just done the math as to what that has cost me over the years. Oy vey. Now that is a good business model!  I have always said…

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I remember a good 15 years or so ago reading an article about a young man (big surprise) who planned to spend the following year in his home (no doubt his parent’s home) without leaving and ordering everything he needed on-line. My first reaction those years ago was, “What a schmendrick!”. My second reaction was,…

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Some people are members of multiple golf courses and county clubs. Others are members of multiple synagogues. Me, I am a member of multiple cycling clubs, and by extension, closets full of club kit. I am a one of the charter members of the Bartali Cycling Club in Toronto and a pretty new member of…

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I have finished living Confinement – Season 2 (French with English subtitles), and now I am living a new series, Quarantine – Season 2 (English with French subtitles). So far, so good, although the plot seems eerily similar to Quarantine – Season 1. I have been back in Toronto now for seven days. I am…

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Jay and The Girl cycling west of the humber

Some people think that I live in a bubble. When it comes to Toronto though, it is more of a rectangle. I figure I spend 99% of my life in Toronto, COVID or no COVID within a rectangle with Front Street to the south, Yonge Street to the east, Eglinton to the north (and only…

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