journal features

perspective and the electricity bill

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2011.11.10

I was fretting that our electricity bill is rarely south of $50 for a month; then Mari reminded me that in Tokyo we paid $100 a month!

Happily, it turns out that we can write off a portion of that bill, as we're using about 20% of our apartment for office space.

Which, I imagine, will change in the new year when the next child is born.

Perspective, perspective.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

—Groucho Marx