The long way home
When I first immigrated from England to southern Ontario, I felt as if I’d moved from a human-sized land to a land that needed…
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Preserving the harvest
In small, rural communities in Haiti, farmers have bushels of fruit that they are unable to bring to market in the cities before the…
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Contested byways
Legend has it that Three Rivers, the rural city where I live, used to be a gathering place for sacred ceremonies for the indigenous…
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Our bodies, our places
I do not know how exact a case might be made, but it seems to me that there is an historical parallel, in white…
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Doubtful Sound
Doubtful Sound, New Zealand (2015) I had the privilege of venturing on a cruise of Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, this past summer. To get…
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Golden
Mercer County, Pennsylvania (July 2015) It’s funny: this scene by a pond, suffused with golden brilliance, wasn’t silent but full of cricket and cicada…
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Ometepe
Ometepe, Nicaragua (2015) A short ferry ride across Lake Nicaragua from the mainland, Ometepe Island feels like another world. Away from the bustle, the…
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Original thrift
Ma was boiling molasses in a pan. When Laura’s kettle was full of popped corn, Ma dipped some into a large pan, poured a…
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Dusk Amid the Cornfield
Clad in plaid and denim overalls, the solitary figure traipses at twilight across acequias into elongated rows of husky stalks bedizened in tassels, silk…
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The land between
live in The Land Between. It is a place that is neither Canadian Shield, nor St. Lawrence lowlands. It is a place where two…
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