To translate our learning into a more personalized form of life, one where we forage and consume in the most of authentic ways, it helps to have space to breathe. Witness, then, the noble mudskipper, a fish living on land. The mudskipper is known best for the way it spits great gobs of mud out… Read more »
I was looking to see what articles I’ve done over the last year and realized I have yet to write about cooking roast beef. How I could forget such a quintessential meal option is beyond me. Nevertheless, we picked up an inside round at our local grocery store today while considering what to have for… Read more »
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Dear Barb: My boyfriend and I have been dating for four months. We get along great and have lots of common interests. I was even thinking he may be the one for me. All that changed last week when we learned his ex-girlfriend is two months pregnant and he is the father. I was devastated… Read more »
They say that if the grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence that’s because it’s fertilized with bullshit. In the cultural paddies of late 1960s college campuses, Herbert Marcuse took this metaphor to heart. In his office were hippos. Why? Well, he loved how hippopotamuses could graze across the vast escarpments… Read more »
This week I was looking for a comfort food to make. I decided to ask the kids what I should make, my youngest said meat and potatoes and my oldest said meatloaf with mashed potatoes. There’s little doubt that I’m raising Albertan kids. I quickly whipped out my meatloaf recipe and ran to the store… Read more »
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Dear Barb: My sister-in-law has just been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and only has weeks left to live. The dilemma I am having is whether I should try to see her before she passes. She has always lived a couple of hours away and has not been close to her family. My husband—her… Read more »
Wisdom and enlightenment require a sense of humour; if you don’t believe me, think of how dour and miserable activists often seem! Happily, rural life as an AU student is often devoid of such sandwich board simplifications of us versus them and good versus evil. The further from a college campus the less strident and… Read more »
As we’re coming to the end of the summer, many of us are taking last minute travel trips, camping trips, completing summer classes, and preparing for the Fall. This year, it looks like the Fall will be much closer to normal than it has been for the past year. With the variants, fluctuating weather, and… Read more »