The Geography of Tiny Dwellings
The apartment is small, and its plaster walls are erected beneath a stairwell which juts into the kitchen; anyone who enters feels like they’re…
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Road Stories: What doesn’t kill you…
So the band quit. Well not really. I’m exaggerating. After our one month sojourn to Texas and back, it seems the boys, realizing it…
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Field Notes: Fort McMurray Walmart
A large portion of the work we do in Fort McMurray involves filming documentaries. This is made extremely difficult if you forget to bring…
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In my solitude
I played piano in the dark. “She’s weird,” my mother would always say before turning on the light, closing the door, and heading back…
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Field Notes: Fort McMurray A night at the Podollan
If you’re from Victoria, living by a mantra of “If that chicken breast isn’t local, organic, and artisan, I’m out of here,” then the…
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Field Notes: Fort McMurray First Impressions
On the plane to Fort McMurray, most people stop talking to me when I tell them my profession. Granted, “Environmental Consultant” isn’t what they…
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Over the moon
When my daughter was born, my mom was over the moon. It was her first grandchild, so she emailed everyone in the world. To:…
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The long and the short of it
Ten months into the First World War, on May 7, 1915, German U-boats torpedoed the British luxury cruiser RMS Lusitania en route from New…
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A memoir: The war invades Scotland
The day the war broke out I was at the Girl Guides Hall. I was a Brownie: 10 years old. When I heard the…
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A cowboy?
Representative of rugged individualism, freedom without constraint from overarching and distant laws or powers, and tied to industry and Western expansion the cowboy has…
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