All Categories
-
Jester goes to the olympics
by Sheri Dumonceaux
Jester is a big-eared Pinto horse with a fuzzy coat and a huge heart. When he hears his owners saying he will never be a good dressage horse, Jester’s heart hurts. But it doesn’t stop him from trying hard. He has good friends, a warm stable, and...
-
Mindful Travel Sketching
A Memoir of Journeys Inner and Outer by Hiroshi Shimazaki
In this third and final volume of the Mindful Art series, Hiroshi Shimazaki explores what has always been at the heart of his sketching/painting activities, whether for academic research or for pure pleasure. Here he reminisces about times on...
-
Finding What Always Was
by Deadly Poets Society
Born in the silence of lockdowns and the noise of systemic change, the Deadly Poets Society began as a circle of Indigenous and non-Indigenous health researchers who met fortnightly to write, reflect, and hold space for one another. What started...
-
Remembering
A 45 Year Engineering Career by John McMillan
John McMillan began his mechanical engineering career in 1971, joining Combustion Engineering (C-E) as a junior engineer trainee for a six-month probationary period. He describes what engineering life was like in the 1970s when there were no...
-
Labelling the Heart
by H Dale Lloyd
The world, as in nature, is intimidated by difference, and the church feels its mission is to fix it. All must be conformed to a ‘normal’ appearance, whatever that is. Fixing differences means eliminating them rather than embracing them and being...
-
Living with a Primitive Brain
Understanding Trauma and Recovery by Emily Myles
Every day we are faced with new experiences, new challenges, and new memories to store. We navigate through the world, attempting to make something of this phenomenon we call ‘life.’ Not so often, however, do we encounter situations and...
-
Behind Closed Doors
Abuse, Survival, and Endurance at the Lourdes Home Orphanage by Clare L.D. White
Please take good care of my baby, thinks Maggie, as she places Dorita in the arms of a nun at the Lourdes Home orphanage in Gozo, Malta. The young mother has no way of knowing that Lourdes Home will eventually become notorious, its name...
-
Rescued - Stories from a Farm Animal Sanctuary
by Cheryl Simpson
Meet the animals of Cedar Row Farm Sanctuary. Every animal has a story, and every rescue is a new beginning. The sanctuary has become home to cows, pigs, goats, donkeys, hens, and even possums! Discover how Charlie the calf found a loving home,...
-
The We're Still Here Book Club. Volume One: Elbows Up!
by Jeff Richardson
What is wrong with the world when the disappearance of a single red baseball cap with an American political slogan on it—yes, one of those hats—can threaten the very existence of Canada? Yet isn’t there something absurdly fitting about the fact...
-
On Second Thought Maybe I'll Live
by Dallas Lacey
Robert Robert Robertson wants to commit suicide—and not just because of his stupid name. Determined to end it all and armed with a backpack full of stolen cash, Robert heads to the Utah desert for one last hurrah. But being inept, impulsive, and...
