Confessions of a Progressively Irrelevant Teacher

OK. You don't like the NDP. I get it. You don't like its platform, policies or ideology? Fine. You are free to hold your own opinion...

"Come outside. You have to see this!" says my husband. I'm exhausted by the grueling uphill walk to Namche Bazaar in the Himal...

We just came back from a trip to Africa where we visited a large mining operation. In this operation, ore is mined miles away and the sl...

I arranged to attend a famadihana  in Madagascar. We had it all set up and then I became violently ill from a stomach complaint. I'm bla...

I didn't know much about Warsaw before I arrived. In the video library inside my brain there rolled archival footage of the Warsaw Upris...

When I was a kid, we had Sunday dinner at my grandparents’ farm an hour’s drive away from our house. We would arrive back home late at nigh...

My mother's table has been sitting in my garage since last July. We moved it here, along with a U-Haul full of stuff, after she went int...

As the "Fight for $15" continues, I hear a lot of scary stories from people in my part of the world. They are afraid of so many...

Truth and Reconciliation I say it's complicated. Others say it's not. It's black and white It's classic good and evil. ...

If you have never worked at an election before, I highly recommend it. There is something almost sacred about it. One person after anoth...

So this guy says "you just don't get it," referring to my position on Alberta's NDP. Apparently I do not understand the ...

Margaret, John and Marion with brother Bobby who died as a child. In 1912 my ancestors on my mom's side of the family came from B...

If… With apologies to Rudyard Kipling If you are happy with cabinet ministers giving themselves 30% pay increase while freezing tea...

I really don't know what possessed me, Mr Risinger.  I don't know what was going through my head.  The last time we spoke I to...