About 22 years ago this week, he asked me on our first date. For those doing the math, he was 14 and I was 16. We have been together ever since. “Awwww… that’s so cute! High school sweethearts!!” I hear that all of the time, then I tell people we met when he was in…

Today, something special happened! I had the extreme privilege of watching my sister in her element as she presented her academic thoughts on decolonizing medieval studies. Her panel was engaging and interesting and I could not be more proud of my baby sister, who is clever and intelligent and well spoken! As a non-academic this…

Can we talk about this nonsense????? Seriously!!! Mental health does not negate physical pain!!! Prejudging his health based on his honest disclosure of his medically-controlled bipolar disorder is a further example of why Canadians living with mental health issues are reluctant to share. The stigma does not end with friends thinking you are “crazy”. The…

Forest Bathingby Frank LaRue Owen Winner 2017 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize There is a way of entering the forestwhen the breeze of the treesbecomes your guide when the cool gray-green daysand humid blue-green nightsbecome your own skin where the unfurling pathsthrough the emerald lightbecome flowing streams. Paths as luminous riversfor your two uncovered feet,salmon-like and…

Tonight is monumental – it is the last night that one of the craziest people on earth has access to nuclear launch codes. It’s the last night that a woman of colour has never served in the 2nd highest office in the United States. It’s the last night that I will go to bed thinking…

My silly raggedy old man likes to shove his head into his bowl and ends up with what looks like a tiny white feather on the top of his head. While this may not be earth shattering news, he is way too cute and the world needs more of that. So as you head into…