O Take Me As I Am: A Story About A Story by Helen Fogwill Porter

Pioneering Newfoundland writer, feminist, and activist Helen Fogwill Porter died last month at the age of 92. A plethora of tributes were published in the days following her death, ranging from a profile in the lofty Globe and Mail to a deeply personal CBC interview with her lifelong friend and fellow writer Bernice Morgan (who …

Ten of My Favourite Books for 2022

Coming up with a "Top Ten" or "Top Anything" list of favourite books from the past year is a little project I've been doing since, oh ... 2006? Some years it's easy, and other years it's frickin' difficult, mostly because I've read so many good books in a given year that I can't narrow it …

Streets of London

It was one of the songs that was on the soundtrack of my childhood: a constant on the radio, like Hey Jude or Delta Dawn or any one of a number of other ubiquitous early 70's hits. In retrospect I think what I grew up hearing was the 1971 Roger Whittaker cover rather than the …

UnPretty

This is something I've wanted to write about for a long time, but it's hard to write about. Not because it's an emotionally difficult subject -- it's not, at all, for me. It's hard to write about because the typical responses to talking about this topic are so predictable and not helpful. If you talk …

Beware These Ides

March 14 was the two-year anniversary of the first case of Covid-19 reported in Newfoundland and Labrador. It was also the day when, despite astronomically high case rates and record deaths, the NL government followed suit with governments all over the country and in many parts of the world in rushing to declare victory over …