I’ve been training myself not to binge-watch my favourite shows, to allow myself to savour that which is worth savouring. For instance, I’m sure those of you who are fans of Orange is the New Black have long finished the series. But I have exercised my self-control and managed to make the series last months past the binge expiration date. I am just reaching the finale this morning, and I’m almost loathe to allow myself to see how the story “ends,” in part because I know tha

Ask anybody who truly loves music, and he or she will probably know who Joni Mitchell is. What’s more, nearly everybody who knows who she is has a favourite Joni song. Usually, it’s from the earliest reaches of her canon — something hopeful and pretty or wistful and lovelorn: Circle Game, Chelsea Morning, Woodstock, Big Yellow Taxi, That Song About the Midway, or Both Sides Now, all of which became hits for other artists (Buffy Saint-Marie, Fairport Convention, Crosby Still