A Review and a Reckoning Part 1
After listening to Clint Smith speak in an interview about his book How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, I couldn’t wait to read it. In faraway...
A Review and a Reckoning Part 2
While planning my daughters’ homeschool history lessons I stumbled across Wheatlands Plantation about an hour away from where we’ve been living in Tennessee. Not much remained of the original property and only the 1825...
In My Right Mind
I was wearing so many bulky layers to onlookers I was either about to exit the airlock of the International Space Station to begin my space walk or I was geared up to walk...
Not In My Front Yard
Like many Americans I am struggling to come to terms with the recent insurrection at the Capitol building. US political coverage is always more difficult to come by in Canada, so I’ve been spending...
Nostalgia and the New Thing
Starship may have built this city on Rock and Roll, but the Via Ex Machina website was built squarely on the alternative music of REM. Stuck in Toronto’s strict COVID lockdown I banished myself...
Dolly and W.C.
As our minivan wound its way through the Smokey Mountains to Sevier County, Tennessee, home of Dollywood Splash Country, I paused the latest Percy Jackson audiobook, to narrate a story of my own for...
Rejoice Always
If you're one of the cool kids on TikTok, then you already know about Nathan Apodaca's video of himself skateboarding while drinking Cran-raspberry juice and listening to Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams." If you're the parent...
