PEREGRINE PULP

Some people were sitting together working on their laptops in the cafe when I sat down to start my own work. Shortly after I arrived one...

I've been looking for a new pair of shoes. For more than a year. I decided I wanted to find some running shoes because none of the...

Over the years I learned fairly little about my grandfathers' experience of war. He never spoke a word, at least to me, about WWII. I...

Over the last two decades I've acquired many kettles and tea pots. I've had stove-top kettles and electric kettle, whistling and...

As a child, Liam worked evenings across town in a barber shop as a soap boy lathering rough faces. At thirteen he dropped out of school...

- I am a mosquito magnet. (Like getting twenty a day through my clothes, while wearing repellant, when no one else is getting any at...

One afternoon in Kampala I was out running errands when I decided to hail a boda-boda (a motorcycle taxi and the most common public...

I brought with me a little souvenir from my Nile trip: malaria. Despite being paranoid and always being covered up (only ever wearing...

Several times during my undergrad I had people suggest to me that I couldn't possibly understand what it's like to have trouble learning...

While I had no jet lag of any kind it has been a slow and steamy transition from -32 Calgary to feeling comfortable in equatorial Africa....

Here's a question: Who are toilets for? No, seriously. Toilets are something I very rarely hear anyone talking (or, more appropriately,...

In recent weeks I've come across many public declarations (in person, on the news, and on social media) claiming “no refugee has ever...

"You're not like the other boys", a voice said from over my left shoulder. That had to be the cheesiest pickup line ever, I thought as I...

I wish you could see what I'm seeing. I've now had three friends, in three very different situations, living in three different...

In August 2016 I shipped my belongings from Ontario to Alberta on Greyhound. The shipment was in two parts with two separate tracking...

At 37 I've watched many acquaintances and friends and much of my family die. I feel like I've seen the gamut, and in everyone from the...

It was July 29, 2016 when I came across an amazing article written by Carl Zimmer, my favourite science writer. The piece, titled...

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,...