Twenty-five years ago, I embarked on an eight-month adventure that would define my adult life. It was not intended to. In fact, at the time it was more lark than prescience. Okay, maybe lark isn’t the fairest description, but academic value and eyes to my future were certainly not priorities when I chose to spend […]
We Need a Hero
I’ll let you in on a little secret. You’re not changing anyone’s mind. Not theirs, not mine, not anyone’s. I’d have thought we’d all know this by now, but Covid-19 has exposed an enduring ignorance of this fact. You. Are. Not. Changing. Minds. Armchair proselytizers have flooded social media feeds with incessant badgering about correct […]
Did Hockey Calgary’s White Knight Save My Kids?
And so it was, that in the year nineteen of the third millennium of the common era, King Hockey of Calgary, the All-Wise and Uncompromising, declared that Sir Maverick of the Lakelands and Lady Bonavista of the Peninsular Covenant were to be wed, thereby uniting the southern and northern realms of Eastern Fish Creek in […]
We’re Afraid of the Dark
We’re afraid of the dark. Like, really afraid. All of us. Being primates, I suppose that’s to be expected from an evolutionary perspective, but it doesn’t bode well for our hackneyed attempts to revolutionize our energy use. Do we really expect to completely change the way we drive, fly, eat, and stay warm when we […]
2019 Was My Best Year Ever
It’s time for a humble brag about my blog. And believe me, anything involving my blog is most definitely humble. By comparison to truly successful bloggers, my forthcoming humble brag waffles somewhere between “how cute” and “sad cringe”. Still, my best year blogging ever is worthy of an audible whoop. There’s no hyperbole in that […]