- May 1, 2017
- 2 min
"I'M ON A DIET"
I wish you could see what I'm seeing. I've now had three friends, in three very different situations, living in three different...
- Sep 26, 2016
- 3 min
HOW TO BREAK A THING
The following is just the sort of thing I see that stops me in my tracks almost every day. Today I was walking past a large corporate...
- Aug 31, 2016
- 2 min
MY CO-OP STORY
(First published by the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation) Like most thirty-somethings I've worked in many different fields: from...
- May 6, 2016
- 3 min
THIS YEAR AND LAST
And so it was, the year of their Lord, two-thousand-six-teen. And there was a Queen, with a large jaw, and a Duke, with a pale-face,...
- Feb 15, 2013
- 12 min
“WE LIVE IN A VISUAL CULTURE”
There exists a silly cliché that says “we live in a visual culture”. In fact, this is a loosely veiled insult. It’s heard mostly in...
- Feb 6, 2013
- 6 min
NATURE
“I think we have to make a decision about our nature, our human nature” Carla declared. “What do you mean?” I said, figuratively holding...
- Dec 8, 2012
- 21 min
TOWARD AN OLD CONSCIOUSNESS
I was recently given a report called Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities. The work was produced...
- Nov 11, 2012
- 7 min
LEST WE REMEMBER
Some say that Remembrance Day is a time when we get to celebrate our freedom, a freedom hard-won by the brave veterans who fought and...
- Jul 8, 2012
- 8 min
I SEE WHY THEY CALLED IT A STING
So there was this news story a while back. It caught my attention as the top news item of the day on my newsfeed. The article was about...
- Feb 13, 2012
- 9 min
TAKING OWNERSHIP
You may or may not have noticed that owning a car is one of the entry points to respectable society. And if you turn on the television or...