Imposter syndrome is a thing. It’s not just a thing for people who suck and wish they were awesome. It’s a thing that makes everyone thin...

Can you imagine if someone had told you at Christmas time, that by the time spring came we would be living in fear-based suspended animat...

Have I mentioned that I hate trying to teach on-line? Mentioned that everyday feels like a failure? If you think that I am posting daily ...

Once upon a time people talked with each other in the streets. Friends met and hugged and shared tea and cookies. People held celebration...

I had an epiphany on the weekend. I can’t remember exactly what I was doing, but I think I had just read something sad. Something sad and...

I hate today. It’s been one stupid thing after another and I am done. I don’t want to do anything. This new world is insane and I’m tired...

You and your kids are on the same team. I suggest that since homeschooling is now pretty much mandatory you think about adopting this as ...

Teaching your kids from home, doesn’t mean trying to turn your home into a school. You can adopt a school style schedule, you can send yo...

It might not be the end of the world, but, it’s March and suddenly your kids are at home for the foreseeable future. Not only that, but t...

The Coronavirus isn’t a race based illness. I feel like some news stories should lead with this tidbit of information. It is true that th...

I wish I had something brilliant to say. I would dearly love to write words that would make you contemplate the impossible, the inevitabl...

I would love to be writing about Skye and Pin Jun again this week. Explaining about Pin Jun’s struggles to accept that she could be falli...

I’m not great with timelines. I can’t tell you what year I graduated or how old I was when I moved to Winnipeg. I mean I could, but I wou...

It is a problem when I expect more from the students in my class than I can expect from the government of my country. I expect the kids I...

Guilt is a strange thing. I’m not sure if other writers feel guilt about what happens to their characters, but for me it is something tha...

“Thank you for taking the time to see me Mr. Prime Minister. I really believe that the technology I’m going to show you today could have ...

Why do people think that their world is more dangerous now than it was thirty years ago? Last time I checked, there were no wars in Canad...

Call me old fashioned, but I don’t think that people should kill each other. Especially on purpose. I’m not particularly versed on the te...

If I were to write a thesaurus (which is not actually on the list of writing projects that I hope to fulfill), I would make perfection a ...

The calendar tells me that another year is about to start. This time, it is not just another year, it is a whole new decade. (Does that m...