Last week CBC Doc Zone released Volunteers Unleashed, a documentary that challenges the efficacy of international volunteer work and voluntourism, on national television in Canada….
I’m a control freak. Anyone who knows me personally can attest to this and is probably saying, “Finally, you admit it!” to themselves right now….
A blog post is circulating around the internet from a woman who has decided that she will no longer wear leggings or yoga pants in…
My life is divided into two distinct time periods – during and after I got things because I was cute. The line between the two…
As a writer, it is my job to write. Turning an article or manuscript in late, or not turning it in at all, is the…
I am rarely at a loss for words, but as I attempt to share some thoughts on 2014 I don’t even know where to begin….
A student, posed with the essay prompt “find an issue concerning identity, writing, and rhetoric in ways that warrant further research,” chose to tweet her…
I have, for as long as I can remember, had an obsession with patterns. The never ending, perfectly spaced ties on a railroad track, the…
There are three types of memory that interest me: personal memory, the memory held by an individual, institutional memory, the consciousness of a corporate entity,…
I always have dirt under my fingernails. Regardless of their length, or my recent activities, they are always filthy. I blame this on two decades…