Faithful readers of this space may remember that in 2017 I wrote about author Debbie Macomber’s decades-long habit of choosing one perfect word to focus on for a year. She chose words like wisdom, prayer, surrender, hope, purpose. My own experiment with the word ‘kindness’ was not a total failure. I didn’t do all the… Read more »
Last year, we addressed the idea of us, noble scholars, reduced to asinine drudgery and suggested that behind our mild-mannered veneers we have a cornucopia of fruitful intellectual possibilities. We posed the question, is truth itself impossible? Education means philosophical inquiry, even if it’s only to realize that each act we engage in and each… Read more »
Sinead Hickman is originally from Whitehorse, Yukon, but moved to Alberta as a teenager. She currently resides in Red Deer with her two young children and her husband whom she credits for allowing her to achieve her educational goals. She has been an AU student off and on for the past decade and is in… Read more »
I have written several articles on how to keep organized; this is because I had never found a method that worked for me long term. As the New Year is upon us I have taken some time to reflect on my current process and if this is going to work moving forward, because this year,… Read more »
It might be overselling it a bit, but I’m going to be stealing a little bit of the fire from my betters this week, hence the article title. The fire I’m going to steal is from the upcoming Council Connection. You may have heard from some shady sources that AUSU Council was planning on raising… Read more »
New Program Students Orientation (Undergrad) Thurs, January 25, 5:00 to 6:00 pm MST Online Hosted by AU Faculty of Business business.athabascau.ca/event-details/business-undergraduate-new-students-information-session/ Register online at above link Bannock and a Movie “Lana Gets Her Talk” Fri, January 26, 12:00 to 1:00 pm MST Athabasca University, Peace Hills Trust Tower, 12th floor, Room 1222, 10011 – 109… Read more »
Have you ever been dying to host a dinner party, wanted to impress the guests, but also not to drain your wallet? I realized the crux to hosting an excellent party doesn’t all depend on the food, but it certainly is one of the highlights. So instead of going out of your way to scroll… Read more »
What brings you pleasure? Lunch at a comedy club? Lunch by a still pond? Or lunch loaded with Redbulls and ballpark franks at a spelling bee? I once got highs over perfect math grades. I’d stare at math textbooks until midnight, solving problems. A 100% exam scored a victory. Anything else, meh. Yet, I fretted… Read more »
Book/Film: A Monster Calls Author: Patrick Ness Illustrator: Jim Kay Before her death from breast cancer in 2007, writer Siobhan Dowd began to develop a story about a boy facing the imminent loss of his mother to cancer. She drew inspiration from the highly poisonous yew tree, which was nevertheless the source of an anticancer drug she was… Read more »
