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 […]
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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 […]
Keep calm and Alberta on
Calgary Herald, Feb 2, 2014. In summer 1939, the British Ministry of Information chose the saying “Keep calm and carry on” over “Keep calm. Don’t panic” (among others) and printed a […]
Aha! Need an idea? Go for a walk. Big brains on brainstorming
UMagazine: We used to think that if you could do math in your head — say, 342 X 87 — you were born “left-brained,” meaning you tended to be more […]
