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 15, 20186 min read
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....
Apr 5, 20182 min read
POWER PLAY
Carla: “I think Weinstein, Spacey, et al have fundamentally destroyed those ideas.” Carlos: “You can't say that.” Carla: “I just did....
Jan 10, 20187 min read
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...
Apr 17, 20174 min read
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...
Mar 11, 20169 min read
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...
Jan 15, 20165 min read
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...
Nov 9, 20134 min read
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...
Apr 2, 201112 min read
