On the news this morning: Canadian beekeepers (who tellingly, refer to themselves as a “community” rather than an “industry”) are launching a class action suit against the makers of neonicotinoid pesticides, for the damage (havoc) their products have caused to bee populations. It inspired me to repost this column I wrote for the Winds of…
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How’s Motherhood?! Did you really just ask me that?
I wrote this a few months ago but was too shy to share it. Maybe these particular nerves feel less raw this morning. For some reason, today, I feel like parading my naked self around. That will pass and I’ll soon be struck by a wave of publishing-remorse and go searching for the Great Undo Button…
Free the Radicals is live
“Humanity is going to need a substantially new way of thinking if it is to survive.” –Albert Einstein I WOULDN’T FOLLOW just anyone down a rabbit hole. I’m a seeker, not a sucker. But when Nassim Haramein went bouncing across my field, I followed. I knew him once, and I couldn’t help but wonder where…
Stopping to Celebrate: the Crankworx 10th Anniversary Anthology
So, that window of time in which I should have been learning how to express milk, bottle-feed, attempt early weaning etc? I was busy compiling an anthology of Crankworx’ greatest moments. (Think: nap-time meets triple espresso-fuelled heart palpitations.) Meaning that, when the event itself rolled around and an invitation pinged into my in-box to attend…
Sherpas Cinema prepares to strike again with Into the Mind
Earlier this summer, I had the chance to check in with Sherpas Cinema’s Dave Mossop, for a story about world-famous sherpas for a new coffee table book coming out from the Mountain Life crew, the Mountain Life Annual. Mossop was wrapping up 2 years of filming for the Sherpas’ next opus, Into the Mind, preparing for…
Things I Covet: Leon Lebeniste’s Le Garde Bike Rack
In the winter, I interviewed Louis-Phillipe Leonard, co-founder and marketing manager for Leon Lebeniste, for an article in about-to-land Coast Mountain Culture magazine. Now that summer’s here, and I’m man-handling my bike onto its wall hooks in the garage after every ride, I’m coveting their signature bike rack even more. Here’s the story behind…
The Unbearable Fleetness of Being
7000 photos later, I have a 7 week old baby. (Apparently, he crossed over from being a newborn to being a regular garden variety baby at the 6 week mark, a milepost we came upon like rally car drivers, speed-whipped and vaguely stunned, leaning hard into the next turn.) There is a new quality to…
The Power of Lists: Productivity’s Secret Weapon
When my father-in-law first left us in Home Renovation Wilderness, he was worried. But he had to let us fall out of the nest on our own, so he distilled all his worry and advice to this: Every day, make a to-do list. Start it fresh, every single day. On a clean sheet of paper….
Why Someone Should Tell Will and Kate that a Ski Resort is a Great Place for a Babymoon
At approximately 34 weeks, the gestating woman enters what could otherwise be termed the “holy shit” phase of her pregnancy… as in: “holy shit, only 6 weeks to go,” or “holy shit, that’s the size of a newborn baby’s head?” or “holy shit, this is really happening, isn’t it?” or “holy shit, could you get…
Labours of Love: An interview about craft with Leon Lebeniste
I recently had the chance to profile the design wizards – Louis-Philippe Leonard and Jon Hewitt – behind the Squamish woodworking and finish carpentry studio, Leon Lebeniste, for the upcoming summer issue of Coast Mountain Culture… and we digressed into a conversation about labours of love and honouring the life-force with our work. Co-founder Jon…
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