You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. — Joan Baez January 23, 1789, Frances Brooke, author, died in England. Frances wrote The History of Emily Montague. She is said to be the first novelist in North America and The History… Read more »
I believe it was Bernard Shaw who said “As it is impossible to say exactly what one means, it follows that it is impossible to mean exactly what one says.” Aside from using this statement as a defense when someone misconstrues your declarations, it provides a good deal of insight into a question that I… Read more »
Some things I’m going to do less of in 2006 “¢ Eating lunch by myself. “¢ Running for the bus, even when I’m late. “¢ Making excuses for not keeping in touch with far away friends. “¢ Making excuses, in general. In the interests of fairness, some phrases I would like to see in more… Read more »
THE THIRD ANNUAL VOICE MAGAZINE WRITING CONTEST! $1000 in scholarships to be awarded $500 each in the fiction and non-fiction categories Write for The Voice and win money for your education. The Voice is launching its third annual writing contest, with categories for both fiction and non-fiction. Non-Fiction: In 1500 words or less, write about… Read more »
Another new Athabasca University (AU) course, SOCI 348 – Sociology of Environment and Health, just opened this past December. This course, which examines key issues in environmental health, also addresses the potential links between industry toxins, such as pollution, and evidence of diseases in our environment. Course author and professor, Dr. Ella Haley, indicates that… Read more »
Remembrance you and you and you a tragedy of soaking locks and floating layers of dark linen becoming the river and staring with empty eyes at spinning wild flowers and weeds white limbs swallowed by murky water Ophelia they said was mad and I with her in love with love and every flower but forget-me-nots… Read more »
THE THIRD ANNUAL VOICE MAGAZINE WRITING CONTEST! $1000 in scholarships to be awarded $500 each in the fiction and non-fiction categories Write for The Voice and win money for your education. The Voice is launching its third annual writing contest, with categories for both fiction and non-fiction. Non-Fiction: In 1500 words or less, write about… Read more »
When the Olympics get underway next month in Italy there will be a number of AU students competing. Once such competitor is Sandra Keith(http://www.sports.sympatico.msn.ca/TopStories/Articles/sandrakeith), biathlete and Bachelor of Commerce student, who is currently in Europe undergoing final preparations: How long have you been competing in biathlon? I started cross-country skiing when I was two years… Read more »
There’s no doubt about it: winter is here, and it’s time to hunker down and bundle up. January is the genuine article when it comes to winter in Canada, and looking out on the snowy landscape at this point in the year, there’s not much to remind us of times of plenty. Not much, that… Read more »
Driving home from work the other day, I couldn’t help but be caught up in a radio caller’s indignant rant against the idea of an alternative high school diploma. If students go out into the world armed with a trades-oriented certificate, the caller argued, employers will consider it as a “lite” diploma, a poor cousin… Read more »