Born in Montreal in February, 1971 four minutes after my sister (I wanted a womb with a view...). Even at the time of the birth, everyone, including the doctor, was under the impression that there was only one. But after my sister was born the doctor said, "Oh my God, there is another one." And I've been causing people to gasp in disbelief ever since...   Grew up in Nova Scotia in the metropolis of Dartmouth...where the public transit closes at midnight (did a lot of walking in my youth...) and then moved to Montreal from 1989-93 to attend Concordia University. Loved spending time in my birth city, but not being a local, couldn't stand the politics, so moved to Toronto (where politics are apparently similar to furniture selling) and figured I'd stay for about 5 years. 13 years later and counting, I am reminded of that great salt-of-the-earth Maritime poet, Milton Acorn, who said, "Toronto is filled with so much promise, and it always lets you down."   Found myself in 1999 with a life partner, a mortgage, and a child...holy crap where did that all come from?...and then went to OISE/UT in 2001 for a teaching degree and an income to pay for my ever increasing debt. Find myself now with three kids and still trying to figure out where they come from...I dunno, I'm thinking women are very strange creatures and that if there is a God, he is obviously a man for relieving us from childbirth...now if he could only do something about that death thing...