The Godfather

When I was ten years old, I watched The Godfather series with my Dad. To this day, no other movie has had a deeper or more lasting impression on me. Did I believe that Michael Corleone understood the secrets of the dark side of humanity? Was my perception of the reality I was born into…

Privacy of the Mind

It was a dark, wet coastal night, and Michael and I were on our way home from the Bird Cage, his favourite restaurant. That wasn’t its real name, we just called it that because it had forty-foot ceilings. “Lots of headspace,” Michael would say, “so you can get some thinking done.” We walked along the…