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Music Review – Heather Ballantine

Artist: Heather Ballentine Single: “Christmas Kisses” Looking for another new song to add to your holiday playlist? Then look no further. Heather Ballentine’s latest single is out just in time for Christmas. Touted as “Music’s Favourite Pin Up Girl”, Heather Ballentine is an entrepreneur, singer/songwriter, pin-up model, and actress from Arkansas. In 2011 Heather moved… Read more »

Minds We Meet – Interviewing Students Like You!

Kaitland Goulet is an AU student from Edmonton, Alberta who works full-time as a legal assistant. She is in the Bachelor of Professional Arts program at AU, majoring in Communication Studies. Kaitland was recently interviewed by The Voice Magazine. Here’s what she had to say about school, social life, and traveling. First of all, whereabouts… Read more »

Replenish

A part of distance education is an insane amount of reading, especially as a humanities student. When we are not reading, we are writing about what we read, which often means rereading some of the previous readings. This can get mundane, and I tend to lose focus. My mind will wander and after a few… Read more »

Student Sizzle! – AU Social Media

AthaU Facebook Group Carrie is looking for used textbooks for SOCI 321 and IDRL 308. Christofer seeks advice on obtaining invigilators for weeknights and weekends. Barry shares his elation after receiving his final exam grade for GLST 483. Other posts include AU mail server outage, the Instructional Design Program, and courses FREN 100, GOVN 301,… Read more »

The Writer’s Toolbox – No Expert

Whenever a friend or family member has a question about grammar, spelling, usage, or language, they come to me. Sometimes I know the answer. Sometimes I don’t. “Oh, but You’re the expert,” they say. “I will be after I look it up,” I reply. Editors are often seen as keepers of a sacred trust?as gurus… Read more »

Zac’s Story

Zachary, my grandson, is a unique and special person. I know everyone thinks their grandchildren are special, but Zac (as he likes to be called) truly is, for many reasons. Zac and his twin sister Madison were the first grandchildren born to both families. Within days of Zac’s birth we were confronted with a devastating… Read more »

Editorial – Happy Holidays!

Just before we get going here, I have to point out and apologize for an error that was made in the last issue. We said (or more particularly, I did, as I write the opening blurb for the Meeting the Minds column) that Dr. Diehl-Jones is with AU’s Faculty of Health Sciences. This was a… Read more »

Editorial – Here it Comes!

There’s only two weeks until another Christmas is upon us. That means that there’s only one more issue of The Voice Magazine that will be published this year. Only one more that you need to take into consideration for your pick for the Best of the Voice issue, which will be showing up in January…. Read more »