Grounded in Ajax|Deep in the Community|Our Busy Side of Toronto

I was squatting on the curb outside the shop in Mount Pleasant, hands numb from the drizzle, watching a man with a headlamp trace the outline of my friend's bum…

I was hunched over the hood with a strip of LED light in my left hand and a coffee in my right, rain still sputtering off the garage roof. It was 7:13 p.m., the…

I was squinting through drizzle at 9:15 am, parked on Robson with the heater still fighting to keep the windshield clear, when my friend texted: "They want $1,2…

Rain was sliding down the windshield in long, impatient streaks, and I was scribbling questions on the back of a takeout receipt while idling outside a detailin…

I was squinting into the drizzle, hood up, leaning over the passenger fender at 8:17 AM outside Cambie and King Edward, trying not to get my jacket soaked while…

I was hunched over the steering wheel, seat warm from the sunroof heat that leaks into everything in July, watching a lanky tech wipe a black SUV under a stripe…

I was crouched in the driver's seat of my rusting Subaru at 2:13 pm, rain misting the windows, squinting at a spreadsheet on my phone and muttering to myself li…

I was hunched over the passenger seat of my friend's Subaru in a Kitsilano parking lot at 10:12 a.m., rain spitting like tiny needles off the windshield, trying…