During a sabbatical last year, Michele was privileged to spend six months in southern Africa. Of this time, one month was spent touring South Africa, Swaziland, and Mozambique, but the five months spent volunteering and living with the Basotho in rural Lesotho has truly had an impact on her life. Michele plans to return to [...]
He did it! He gave me a beautiful engagement ring and asked me to marry him. We are planning to get married in August this year. The thought of planning a wedding was so exciting to me at first, but when I started to really think about our situation, living in Japan and our families [...]
For Canadian book lovers everywhere, CBC’s Canada Reads is like the Grammys. Or Oscars. We eagerly await each year for March to see what will be chosen as Canada’s book of the year to read. This year’s selections are as varied as their defenders: The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill (defended by Avi Lewis), [...]
Let’s Eco-Green Baby
Cloth Diapers
I’ll be 100% honest here: I didn’t even know that the type of cloth diaper we use and love was available until I was pregnant and started researching that kind of thing. I, like most people I’ve talked to about this issue, pictured ye olde cloth diaper of yore, complete with hazardous [...]
Exhausted after putting in a day’s work, I climb into my car and drive to the babysitter’s house. Collecting my daughter, we drive home, chatting noisily as we catch up on the events of each other’s day. As we arrive home, I’m faced with a messy house, laundry that needs to be done, and supper [...]
You would have to live under a rock to not be familiar with the terms “global warming” or “climate change.” But what exactly do these terms mean? It is hard, sometimes, to believe in global warming when it is -40 out and you are looking at feet of snow. Not really understanding how these concepts [...]
In the past couple of years, two women in my life have proven themselves to be extraordinary in their strength and compassion. My sister-in-law, Joni, is one of them. The other is my friend, Melissa. Both are young women in their twenties who have been devastated by cancer. For Joni, her nightmare began in January [...]
When I first embarked on my freelance writing career, I was all starry-eyed and excited about what my future held. I imagined long hours in front of my laptop working on my poetry/manuscript/latest article. It would be hard work, but my God it would be satisfying! And I would be so happy. My creative juices [...]
A year ago, I embarked on my mission to Mars. It all started with a call for proposals from the Mars Society of Canada that read:
The Mars Society of Canada (MSC) is now accepting applications for ExDelta and ExEpsilon – two-week training and research missions to the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah. The [...]
