Standing on the scale, I hit my target weight. Yet nothing feels different. I long to have that high?that feeling of exhilaration?that is supposed to happen when you skinny down. So, I aim for a lower weight?that is until I feel weak and lifeless, until I see a picture of a boney dying soul that… Read more »
Musician: Charlotte Cornfield Album: Future Snowbird Folk-rock is a difficult genre to pull together effectively. Yet, when folk and rock are brought together in a brilliant harmony, the result is a song that will reach out and touch the very heart of the listener. Charlotte Cornfield’s latest album Future Snowbird features such a blend of… Read more »
There is nothing more that The Study Dude wants for you than to split your infinitives wisely. Well, in these articles, as The Study Dude, I’ll try to give you the study tips you need to help make your learning easier. I’ll also give you straight and honest opinions and personal anecdotes?even the embarrassing ones… Read more »
While walking for a study break I looked up and noticed five squirrels silently scampering along a mesh of branches above my head. After hearing so much spring squirrel ruckus in recent weeks their stealthy passage came as a surprise. “Hmm,” I thought, “perhaps I’m seeing another side of squirrels.” Maybe all conflict contains more… Read more »
The rise and fall of the Oilers hockey team has been well documented by experts and rednecks alike. Gallons of ink have been spilled since the Wayne Gretzky-led Stanley Cup winners carved up the ice at Commonwealth Arena. Callers to talk radio and letter writers to newspapers are not short of criticism or advice. The… Read more »
Dear Barb: Hi, I hope some of your readers can relate to my story. My husband and I met after the untimely death of our spouses. We both have grown children who were, supportive of our relationship. Since we were older and this was not our first marriage we decided to elope. Unfortunately, my daughter… Read more »
Adien Dubbelboer, an instructor in the English Centre for Humanities in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, is the Academic Coordinator for Effective Writing and the Course Coordinator for English 255, Introductory Composition. She was kind enough to set some time aside from her busy schedule to speak to The Voice Magazine about the… Read more »
There is nothing more that The Study Dude wants for you than to take twice as long writing your essays so that your essays read ten-times better. Well, in these articles, as The Study Dude, I’ll try to give you the study tips you need to help make your learning easier. I’ll also give you… Read more »
Have you ever heard of the serenity prayer? You ask for help from God “to accept the things [you] cannot change [and] courage to change the things [you] can change, and wisdom to know the difference.” I often wondered about this prayer: it sounds sophisticated but doesn’t give any practical advice or direction. So, the… Read more »
In a world That’s being so rapidly transformed by digital technology that you scarcely dare blink for fear of missing some colossal new breakthrough, It’s easy to forget that whatever patch of earth we’re standing on is millions of years old, or that being aware of the history of the human beings who occupied it… Read more »