I’m late to the party, as usual, but I just discovered the Atlantic Wire’s “Media Diet” feature this week. And all I have to say is this: HOW COOL IS THAT? No, I have more. It’s astounding how much … Continue reading →

  Tired of Tchaikovsky? (I know, I know, as if that is possible.) Consider CBC Radio 3, a radio station that consists of two parts devoted to Canadian arts and music: a radio service which is available on Sirius Satellite … Continue reading →

  Christina’s post on web thinkers coincided with with this Sir Ken Robinson video on collaboration from Toronto’s Artscape. You can see the trimmed 6 minute video here. The type of thinking, our idea orientation, our posture of engagement, whatever … Continue reading →

  One of my ‘hats,’ as a media relations instructor, requires that I keep up on the wonderful world of social media. I blog (obviously) but beyond that I am a bit of a luddite. So, to stay ahead of … Continue reading →

Over at Living Jubilee today, I wrote a little bit about Marilyn Chandler McEntyre’s book Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies. I think it bears repeating over here as well, because I think this book is important to … Continue reading →

Today, we are a mostly impatient lot. We have trouble waiting five minutes for a coffee and fume if a flight is late. It is difficult to imagine that we might have to wait decades for something. In the world … Continue reading →

  This week, spurred by my participation in a local poetry workshop, I pulled a back issue of Room of One’s Own, the Canadian feminist literary journal, off the shelf. It served as a reminder that truth often arrives in … Continue reading →

Over at Living Jubilee today, I wrote a little bit about Marilyn Chandler McEntyre’s book Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies. I think it bears repeating over here as well, because I think this book is important to … Continue reading →

  Fast Company started this line of inquiry for me with a piece they published on dead malls. They featured Dixie Square Mall, pictured above from the website DeadMalls.com. Another one is El Con Mall. There are many, many more. … Continue reading →

  As the Globe reports, it seems people are still interested in writing, and in what writers have to say about it. “Inspired by the British paperback publication of Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing, the Guardian newspaper asked a … Continue reading →