The long way home
byWhen 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
byIn small, rural communities in Haiti, farmers have bushels of fruit that they are unable to bring to market in the cities before the…
Contested byways
byLegend has it that Three Rivers, the rural city where I live, used to be a gathering place for sacred ceremonies for the indigenous…
Our bodies, our places
byI do not know how exact a case might be made, but it seems to me that there is an historical parallel, in white…
Doubtful Sound
byDoubtful Sound, New Zealand (2015) I had the privilege of venturing on a cruise of Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, this past summer. To get…
Golden
byMercer 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…
Ometepe
byOmetepe, Nicaragua (2015) A short ferry ride across Lake Nicaragua from the mainland, Ometepe Island feels like another world. Away from the bustle, the…
Original thrift
byMa was boiling molasses in a pan. When Laura’s kettle was full of popped corn, Ma dipped some into a large pan, poured a…
Dusk Amid the Cornfield
byClad in plaid and denim overalls, the solitary figure traipses at twilight across acequias into elongated rows of husky stalks bedizened in tassels, silk…
The land between
bylive in The Land Between. It is a place that is neither Canadian Shield, nor St. Lawrence lowlands. It is a place where two…