- Apr 15, 2018
- 6 min
KIDNAPPINGS
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...
- Apr 5, 2018
- 2 min
LIFE IN KAMPALA
Me: a traveler passing through. Emma: a gainfully employed husband and father. We were talking about what it's like to live in Kampala....
- Jan 10, 2018
- 7 min
POWER PLAY
Carla: “I think Weinstein, Spacey, et al have fundamentally destroyed those ideas.” Carlos: “You can't say that.” Carla: “I just did....
- Apr 17, 2017
- 4 min
WHO'S AT FAULT?
The Globe and Mail recently published an article entitled "Why female cooks stay out of the kitchen", authored by a Toronto restaurant...
- Mar 11, 2016
- 9 min
BEING BORN
I only made it through the first season of Mad Men. As a television series set in an advertising firm at the end of the 1950s, I found it...
- Jan 15, 2016
- 5 min
SO MUCH HOT AIR
Downplaying the Islamic State shows not only our lack of courage and compassion but also our failure to learn from the past. I think of...
- Nov 9, 2013
- 4 min
FORGOTTEN
If you know me then you know that I hate Remembrance Week (as it is currently constructed and observed.) This here is my annual...
- Apr 2, 2011
- 12 min
DISAGREEING WITH FEMINIST JOURNALISTS or HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE
In the April 1st edition of Victoria’s Times Colonist, Jody Paterson wrote an article about a horrific sexual assault that took place in...