Posts By: Wanda Waterman

Wanda Waterman

Wanda Waterman is a poet, spoken word artist, blogger, cultural journalist, and digital nomad. She’s been writing regularly for The Voice Magazine since 2004, not long after she began studying psychology at Athabasca. Her poetry has been published in Descant, The Talking Leaves, Chizine, Our Times, The Best of Tigertail, and Pottersfield Portfolio and her articles in Design is Political, Rawckus Magazine, Coastal Life, The New Internationalist, This Magazine, and in her blog, The Mindful Bard. She grew up in Nova Scotia, but after having lived in New Hampshire and North Africa she’s now settled in Montreal.

In Search of Fisherman’s Tea

If you live in Southwestern Nova Scotia and place a “For Sale” sign in the window of a car parked in your dooryard, be prepared to provide the Bluenose Tea Ceremony to any potential buyers, especially buyers from the more traditional cultures here?the African Canadian, the Mi?kmaq, the Irish, the Scottish, and the French?who’ve been… Read more »

Comic – The Non-Partisan

— This, from the August 12th issue, was the last comic before we started the graphic novel “The Doppelgänger Cure”. So was a contender just because of the significance of that, but what sealed it was the nomination came with the note, “Kinda sums 2016 up.” Happy New Year, folks!

Slow Brain Campaign for 2017

You’ve heard of the slow food movement? Taking half a day to prepare a grand repast and then spending the rest of the day eating it? Sarcasm aside, making slow food a way of life is economical, healthy, sustainable, and life-enhancing. It’s a way of living that belongs smack dab in the middle of the… Read more »

The Mindful Bard – KyAzMa

Album:The Magician’s Mirror Artist: KyAzMa “The soul, the centre of the sacred self, You see with the third eye, Not with a mind That’s going ?round and ?round and ?round …” – from “The Circle” by KyAzMa The lyrics of these songs are so brilliant they’re scary, manifesting an old-soul spirituality and indicating an extensive… Read more »

In Conversation with Lakes of Canada

Lakes of Canada is a Montreal-based band of musical wizards with a sound inspired by a host of influences, including folk, gospel, soul, early sixties folk, and prog rock. On October 25th, they launched the album Transgressions Acoustic, a live acoustic recording of songs based on Transgressions, the sophomore studio album they’d released last year…. Read more »