In 2011, I wrote about my maternal Grandpa Croucher’s autobody shop in downtown Edmonton. I was quite small when he sold the family business that his father had built when he settled in Edmonton post-WWI. That business was Albert’s Autobody, which still stands next to the Hope Mission in Edmonton today. My memories of my granddad grow hazier as the years… Read More

(you can listen to this post here) It’s evening. I’m on the train and outside the world is entering that dusky summery time when everything feels like it’s melting from one realm to another. The golden hour. My favourite hour. And as the sun sets and the sky and grass are dancing in the soft… Read More

You can support the amazingly talented and brilliant thinker and artist Elizabeth Pensée here: she has lost everything in a fire and could really use some collective financial support to help make her gorgeous project Spacecanoe come to life. On her gofundme page she explains: “Spacecanoe is a space/time travel game that passes on traditional star teachings with mechanics… Read More

I’ve been reading and re-reading Sara Ahmed’s recent piece “Against Students“. Letting her words tumble around in my head. Hardly believing a tenured professor is willing to say these things, to name these things. Her piece goes against everything we are taught as academics about not rocking the boat. Accepting our fates. Being complacent, complicit.… Read More