The Day That Loyalty Backfired

When I was an undergraduate at McGill, it wasn’t the numerous English Literature professors who inspired me to write – other than to write endlessly dry analytical mid-term and end of term, papers.

To begin at the beginning, I had been introduced to Stephen Leacock’s works in high school years when Sunshine Sketches of Little Town appeared on our English Literature curriculum. I was them and forever inspired by the timeless wit of Leacock. He had the uncanny knack of seeing humour in all the little everyday situations and given my own sense of the comedic in my daily life, I too began to see around me gems of creative inspiration arising from my own light-hearted and somewhat irreverent perspective of a Canadian senior.