Houston, you have a problem. You just voted to repeal an ordinance that would have banned discrimination on the basis of age, race, or sex, and I don’t think you know what you have done. You bought into the propaganda that made you afraid. You were lead to […]
At a meetup group coffee event recently, I made the mistake of bringing up the topic of the refugees flooding into Europe. I probably should have stayed with safer topics because I didn’t know any of the people who were there, and up until that point the conversations had been […]
When I first realized that some people were opposed to gentrification, it surprised me. Am I gentry? I suppose I am since I am white, educated, and middle class. Is my in-fill house part of gentrification? Yes, it is. Is that so bad? I am struggling to reconcile my pleasure […]
I walk the line between wanting to live in the USA, close to my family there, and feeling horrified by repeated mass murders. My US family members are all lovely, peaceful, law-abiding folks who are outraged at gun violence. Every time. They don’t keep guns under their beds […]
Canadians who get their news from online news feeds are being bombarded with the minutiae of not one but two national elections. Both the Canadian and American election processes are far too long, and most of us have tired of it. In Canada, an election must take a […]
This weekend our main street hosted a festival of art, music, and food. It is called Kaleido which is Greek for beautiful form, and that is a perfect description for the festival, for the individual works of art, and for the neighbourhood. As I walked along the street […]
I have just finished reading the very moving and beautifully written Letter to My Son by Ta-Nihisi Coates in The Atlantic. (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/tanehisi-coates-between-the-world-and-me/397619/). It is a raging love letter, and a complex acceptance of disquieting truths about racism in America. I won’t try to paraphrase it because I would […]
I am a snowbird who travels south for the winter. When I get there I have a bird of paradise plant on my patio.
