Every spring, I look forward to the annual ritual of picking wild leeks. For some, trudging through the woods looking at a carpet of dead leaves and swatting swarms of tiny blackflies is far from appealing. I love it anyway. Wild leeks (also known as wild onions, wild garlic, ramps, or allium tricoccum) can be… Read more »
The Blueprint for Action (Blueprint) model was developed in 2020, after Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tham, sounded the alarm on problematic substance abuse amongst youth in her 2018 State of Public Health in Canada report. In a nutshell, the Blueprint model aims to encourage a different way of thinking about how to… Read more »
Have you ever gotten into one of those cycles where things just don’t seem to be working out. I’m in the middle of one of those now. A couple weeks ago, I took a week away from The Voice Magazine in large part because working on the computer had become painful in my right arm…. Read more »
I have a confession to make. Chronologically I am 27 but emotionally I act like I am, at most, 12. It is not because of developmental differences. Or, my favourite rationalization for the past year and a half, the effect of invisibility syndrome. I have to take responsibility here. I am 28 years old in… Read more »
For a while, I didn’t work. First, I was knocked out of the ring due to ten years of severe anxiety and chronic disease. During that time, I’d search for ways to make extra money. And indeed, nothing I searched seemed to result in anything that would make much money. Since healing myself of anxiety… Read more »
I was out walking my dog late on a mild spring evening a while back, when I passed by an elderly woman who was sitting on the front steps of her house playing an accordion. I recognized the piece of music as Bob Dylan’s When I Paint My Masterpiece. There was an old elm tree… Read more »
Cottage season will soon be upon us. If you don’t own a summer cottage, the next best thing is to be on good terms with someone who does. Your cottage-owning friends may, from time to time, invite you for a carefree weekend away, all without you incurring the expense and bother associated with owning a… Read more »
Have you ever tried Googling yourself and paying attention to the search engine suggestions that pop up as you type? Well, that process is made possible by something known as algorithms, and it is what the digital world runs on. An algorithm is a procedure used for solving a problem or performing a computation and… Read more »
Pursuing knowledge is the greatest aspiration, next to giving unconditional love. When people temporarily die and enter what they call “heaven,” they often report that curious angels ask them, “What have you learned?” And these temporarily “deceased” people are often invited to ask any question they desire. Sometimes people are at a loss for a… Read more »