This time I did not linger in the woodlot to watch the birds, butterflies or rabbits. Still I gazed at…
A Rainy Walk in Mimico Creek
We stopped to talk to Omo because he was Black. So far we had seen only two Black people in…
Who Gets the Balconies?
Walking around my ‘hood, I examined which apartment blocks had balconies, and which did not. Balconies have gone from being…
Black on the Grand Tour
I have done many rounds of the Grand Tour of Europe: traipsing around ruins and palaces, cathedrals and art galleries,…
Swimming at Eglinton Outdoor Pool
Sweaty and stinky after a couple of hours of weeding and watering at the community garden, I was ready for…
Canoeing the Humber River
Hopping into the back of the canoe, my body instinctively knew what to do: sit upright, knees lowered, J-stroke to…
Hiking Hadrian’s Wall
It was a warm spring day in May this year, when Mohammed Dhalech and I set out to walk Hadrian’s…
Cycling for Black History in Niagara-on-the-Lake
I had cycled from Niagara Falls GO train station to Niagara-on-the-Lake on a daytrip to find the Black history along…
A Jamaican Missionary in Africa
“All I ever wanted to be was a missionary in Africa,” she said. We met on a cross-country ski trip.…
What’s in a Place Name?
Cycling along Lake Ontario, I breezed by a little community called Brighton. Make that wheezed by, as it was the…
Black Outdoors 