I had a flash of cold clarity: is this the phone call that changes the rest of my life?
Monarchy is weird (pls god save us from any more kings)
As historians of authoritarianism and brave journalists are telling us—your joy matters, community matters, refusing to obey in advance matters, vigilance matters. God save us from kings and king wannabes. Go find true majesty and ordinary courage and proclaim it.
Her crowning moment: a Q+A with artist Asta Kovanen and her Travellers series, now showing at the Ferry Building Gallery
On Thursday, I got to attend the opening for a new art exhibit at the Ferry Building Gallery in West Vancouver, featuring my friend, Whistler-based artist, Asta Kovanen. Asta was paired by the jury with Marlene Lowden, a painter, and the two artists’ works juxtapose beautifully, as a way of pondering our relationship and roles…
Long live the stories, long live the niches
I have a horror for monoculture and monopoly. (I believe that diversity seeds resilience.) Professionally, I have loved being able to lift up the kind of people who make my little piece of the world better – quirky, flavoursome, interesting, unique, richer. Yesterday, Craft MTN, a sweet little zine from the team at Freehub, wound…
When you have to write a love song to your community and you don’t recognize it anymore
I got asked to write a little lovesong to Pemberton – to make the thousand word case why it’s the best community to live in, in the Sea to Sky – and I still don’t really understand why I found it so hard. (I shared the final piece earlier this week.) Ten years ago, even…
Royal Rumble: Pemberton
In the spring issue of Mountain Life, Coast Mountains, the communities of the corridor flex on their unique attributes. I got to speak for Pemberton. via https://www.mountainlifemedia.ca/2024/03/royal-rumble-pemberton/ Wayne Andrew, Líl̓wat horseman and a legendary rodeo rider in his prime, told me recently how Pemberton got its name. A story his grandfather told him. Passed on…
Sea to Sky gets its own Edible magazine = Yum.
In the fall I got a call from Terra Gaddes – she was starting a food magazine and someone she knows in the Meadows suggested I might be able to recommend some contributors. She’s worked for 27 years as a child and youth care counsellor. Buying into the Edible magazine franchise, to launch Edible Sea…
The Art of Farming
The Art of Farming ran in the debut issue of Edible Sea to Sky magazine. Photos by Brenda Bakker. At Laughing Crow Organics, the empty spring field is Kerry McCann’s blank canvas Every year, the impossible goal to provision 600 households starts with the same blank canvas: bare earth, covered in snow, and a new…
The Luck Factor of Tonje Kvivik
Tonje has recently signed with Arc’teryx, so I was asked to interview her for a “Welcome to the team” profile. I have never failed to be impressed with the athletes who join this brand’s roster – and Tonje is just as personable and engaging. We bonded so hard over a mutual appreciation for Katie Burrell,…
Is the City Dreaming You or Are You Dreaming the City? Meeting my 20 year old self in New York City
One of my oldest friends was laid off last May from a firm she’d been working with since we graduated in the late 90s. She decided, after securing commitments from friends to join, to use her severance to splurge on a month-long sabbatical in New York’s Chelsea neighbourhood. I was one of the friends. COVID-19…
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