The history beneath our feet
Calgary Herald, June 30, 2018: We throw the street names around every day while navigating the roads in Calgary. Shaganappi, the one that’s fun to watch visitors say, is a […]
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Packing pipeline placards for Vancouver
Calgary Herald, June 2, 2018: When your kids are little you worry about them running with scissors. When they grow up and decide to go to grad school at UBC, […]
Pearls of wisdom: Highlight reel
Calgary Herald, July 4, 2016: The newsprint has yellowed and there’s a water mark on the obituary that I ripped out of the paper and stuck to the fridge with […]
Putting on our happy face
Calgary Herald, Feb 1, 2016: I think my mom invented the emoji. I have a ripped manila envelope full of letters she wrote me in university and each page of yellow […]
The hard work of happy
Swerve, January 15, 2016: I had one of my first revelations about adult happiness as a kid sitting with my friend’s mom in her tidy kitchen—an ashtray on the table and […]
Catching more than a fish on the mighty Bow
Calgary Herald, June 1: Most of us see the Bow River every day, often while stuck on a bridge in rush hour. The river is a traffic bottleneck and the […]
THE DEATH AND LIFE OF THE WORLD’S BIGGEST RAM
Swerve Magazine, May 22: The world-record bighorn sheep wowed hunters and conservationists. But to the biologist who had studied it since it was a lamb, the animal was much more than […]
Painting your fingernails isn’t just for girly girls
Calgary Herald, April 6–She had the dexterity of a surgeon. The skill of an artist. The manicurist held my hand and quickly, carefully painted each nail. Her head was bowed. Her […]
Why are we picking on women who choose to wear the black veil and applauding those who wear a white one?
The first time I saw a woman draped from head to toe in shapeless black cloth, I was pretty sure she was wearing handcuffs underneath. I gave the guy she […]
The slippery slope of sweatpants
Calgary Herald, March 9, 2014–I once worked with a woman who, after a long night on her feet wearing high heels, a short skirt and a fitted jacket went off […]
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