Month: December 2016

A celebrated Canadian author who writes about First Nations heritage and culture is defending himself on Twitter after his ancestry was questioned. In a statement posted to his Twitter account, Joseph Boyden said he is of “mostly Celtic heritage,” but he also has Nipmuc roots on his father’s side and Ojibway roots on his mother’s. […]

…In this world there is only incremental progress. Only the willfully blind can ignore that the history of human existence is simultaneously the history of pain: of brutality, murder, mass extinction, every form of venality and cyclical horror. No land is free of it; no people are without their bloodstain; no tribe entirely innocent. But […]

Yes yes, I know I was supposed to give you a book review today, but I have 3 or 4 (or 5)  books on the go, and I’ve finished none. No promises about next week either. You see, I’ve hit a snag in my reading habits with the passing of my dear cat who would […]

I have it. That dream, the dream about moving from the smoggy, crowded, stressful big city to the peaceful, clean, rural farm. I have that dream. Josh Kilmer-Purcell and his husband Dr. Brent Ridge, had the dream. My dream involves horses and dogs, while theirs involves chickens and goats. Okay, maybe I’ll take chickens and […]