Credit cards are not the source of all evil. Yes, you read that correctly. They are not our friends, but neither are they our foes. They are objects, and objects don’t have intentions. This would be like saying a carrot stick or a textbook intends to murder us in the middle of the night. Although… Read more »
As the days are becoming cooler and roasted foods take over the dinner menu, I decided to try my hand at roasting. To make things more complex, I opted to roast a whole duck. Initially, I was concerned with my lack of experience in the kitchen to attempt such a feat. Unlike chicken, duck protein… Read more »
Dear Barb: I want a divorce, but my husband doesn’t and I don’t know what to do! We have been married for seven years and have two beautiful children. I just don’t feel the love for my husband any longer. We have been growing apart and rarely do anything together. We are almost like a… Read more »
[Pointed out by a Voice Reader, the August 13 installment of Poet Maeve just gets me on so many levels. It had to be here.]
Mary Agnes Snively was born on November 12, 1847, in St Catharines Ontario and died 85 years later on September 26, 1933. She never married nor had children. Snively was an educator and a nurse who was known as the “Mother of Nurses in Canada.” After graduating high school Snively taught for almost twenty years. … Read more »
In the English seaside town I grew up in, there was an urban legend about a certain apple tree that grew on the edge of the town park, or the Recreation Grounds, as the place was known. The story went that a woman, a single mother with three young daughters, had brought her family to… Read more »
We are all placed in this world to learn lessons. And how do we learn our lessons? Through hardships or mistakes. Wear your scars like badges of honour, says my beloved friend, but sometimes our mistakes have grave consequences. Like a one punch bar fight that leads to a death. I believe we are not… Read more »
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” – Emily Dickinson Ah, the human brain. That overstuffed gray matter enchilada, filled with shredded images, diced ideas, and gooey melted memories. Packed full of primo chemicals, tiny electrical sparks, Shakespearean sonnets, nursery rhymes, erotic visions, misremembered lyrics, film noir dialogue, esoteric formulae,… Read more »
Emma Gonzalez is a survivor of a school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018 that killed 17 people and injured several more. Emma became a gun control activist and cofounded the gun control advocacy group “Never Again MSD.” Emma was born November 11, 1999 and has two older siblings. … Read more »
Distance education can seem like a marathon: a lot of work over a long time with the end goal seeming to recede ever-further into the distance. Like snowshoeing through falling snow, our trail can seem, at best, nebulous. Marathons also imply suffering rewarded with moral and physical gratification. At AU our struggles over months and… Read more »