

DO WE HAVE TO KEEP DOING THIS? (INSECT EDITION)
Seems every news and information source is offering that we are on the cusp of a global insect mass-extinctions threatening all life on...
Feb 14, 20195 min read


FROM NOTHING, NOTHING COMES
“What's up?” asks Perk, imagining Gram must be a little depressed, though certain as ever he remains unable to read the man. Cocking his...
Feb 11, 20193 min read


ANCIENT OR MODERN?
I'm constantly hearing about archaeologists digging up ruins and collecting artifacts from the ancient Aztec empire. Historians and...
Jan 30, 20195 min read


WRITE?
America's Authors Guild recently collected data from its own membership and the members of 14 other writers' organizations, including:...
Jan 5, 20191 min read


COLOURBLINDNESS
I've been looking for a new pair of shoes. For more than a year. I decided I wanted to find some running shoes because none of the...
Dec 17, 20185 min read


ATTACK OF THE MARAUDING POST-APOCALYPTIC ZOMBIE CHIMPS
“I don’t know, it’s like how people don’t seem to think about how things are made or what they’re for.” “They do, don’t they?” “No. I...
Dec 6, 20186 min read


UNKNOWN
Over the years I learned fairly little about my grandfathers' experience of war. He never spoke a word, at least to me, about WWII. I...
Nov 11, 20182 min read
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Today I got a little booklet in the mail from the provincial government. It was the official voter's guide to the referendum on electoral...
Oct 22, 20188 min read


+10,000
Nothing happened 2,018 years ago on the first day of January. Bizarrely, Pope Gregory XIII, who gave us our modern calendar back in 1582,...
Oct 7, 20185 min read


TOO POUR
Over the last two decades I've acquired many kettles and tea pots. I've had stove-top kettles and electric kettle, whistling and...
Sep 1, 20183 min read


BORDERLESSNESS
The Atlantic magazine carried an article called "The Case For Getting Rid of Borders – Completely." I really wanted to hear something...
Aug 20, 201810 min read


WORKED
As a child, Liam worked evenings across town in a barber shop as a soap boy lathering rough faces. At thirteen he dropped out of school...
Jul 5, 20181 min read


AFRICA: Observations, revelations, misconceptions, and reflections
- I am a mosquito magnet. (Like getting twenty a day through my clothes, while wearing repellant, when no one else is getting any at...
Apr 26, 20189 min read


KIDNAPPINGS
One afternoon in Kampala I was out running errands when I decided to hail a boda-boda (a motorcycle taxi and the most common public...
Apr 15, 20186 min read


UGANDA JOURNAL - MONTH TWO
I brought with me a little souvenir from my Nile trip: malaria. Despite being paranoid and always being covered up (only ever wearing...
Apr 11, 201822 min read


LIFE IN KAMPALA
Me: a traveler passing through. Emma: a gainfully employed husband and father. We were talking about what it's like to live in Kampala....
Apr 5, 20182 min read


LEARNED
Several times during my undergrad I had people suggest to me that I couldn't possibly understand what it's like to have trouble learning...
Mar 27, 20189 min read


UGANDA JOURNAL - MONTH ONE
While I had no jet lag of any kind it has been a slow and steamy transition from -32 Calgary to feeling comfortable in equatorial Africa....
Mar 3, 201811 min read


THE STRANGE MULTIPLICATION OF "DIVISION"
In 2018, it seems weekly we have another report or op-ed hitting home how "America is so divided" and "never been so divided." I read...
Feb 17, 20185 min read


TOILETS
Here's a question: Who are toilets for? No, seriously. Toilets are something I very rarely hear anyone talking (or, more appropriately,...
Feb 1, 20183 min read


THE NEW REVENGE PORN
I just heard about Aziz Ansari. I worry you won't read the victim's words and just assume this case to be like most of the others. It is...
Jan 15, 20183 min read


POWER PLAY
Carla: “I think Weinstein, Spacey, et al have fundamentally destroyed those ideas.” Carlos: “You can't say that.” Carla: “I just did....
Jan 10, 20187 min read


EVERYTHING IS IN THE FRAMING
The caterpillar cuts a path of pure devastation through the ecosystem it is born into. It consumes everything it can find, eating...
Dec 29, 20171 min read


PEOPLE DON'T LIE
A favourite statement regularly heard repeated in recent months is that “people don't lie about abuse.” This is sometimes modified to...
Dec 10, 20174 min read

























































































