Selected Columns
Toronto Star Op Ed: Residents help fight housing crisis
Our community has recently gained profile for successfully completing a community bond raise in jig time, to support affordable housing. The exposure, which included CBC TV National News, set the table for an invited op ed in the Saturday Star.
A Tower of Babel
To a hammer, everything looks like a nail, which makes a conversation between a hammer and a wrench -- or between generations -- difficult. But what if we tried to bridge the gap?
Naming and Claiming
Celine Dion told Adrienne Arsenault that she would sing again, and she did -- flawlessly, they say, although she looks liminal -- at the opening of the Paris Olympics. This column examines that process through a Freire lens.
Alice Munro Redux
Our literary icon has clay feet! Where to point the finge of blame when sexual assault within the family becomes a secret that must be kept?
Trespassers
Protest encampments on campus are becoming as common as daffodils in spring, but what do they signify? Does the student unrest of the 1960s have anything to teach us?
Women's Sexuality
Alice Munroe wrote about proper ladies who didn't behave properly: why might that be?
The Two-Edged Sword of Insecurity
Insecurity is an existential element of life; community is the cure.
The Holy Trinity of Womanhood
The fourth role -- competing in the economic world -- that women are expected to play may sink the boat.
How to Think About Stuff
This factoid world makes decisions increasingly difficult; take a time out to become friends with ambiguity and uncertainty.
The Four Horsemen: Trauma, Grief, Depression and Anxiety
I propose a 3-step process for doing emotional laundry to keep mental unease at bay.
Be with me
Given modern practice I should give a trigger warning that this column is about suicide.
How to be, that is the question…
Conservative governments are stampeding to intervene in family dynamics far beyond their ken, imperilling kids.
Mothers and Daughters
The spectre of mortality tends to being generations together and make space for sharing memories.
Talking and Listening
The brevity of modern media cannot compete with the potentially steamy missives of yesteryear: An homage to letters.
The Evils of Ageism
A call to retire the construct of retirement and reimagine the contributions of 'dependents'.
Canoe FM Story Circle
A reading of my work is featured on our local community radio station.