Much ink is being spilled, metaphorically speaking, about the changing trends in subscription-based streaming services. Headlines scream that shows on Netflix and Prime will now include ads, implying that users…
The Palestine Project I almost missed my annual Remembrance Day post. While a handful of countries commemorate the most pointless and horrific of wars to end all wars, a genocide…
Ta-da! I finished! I’ve been reading Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 in weekly installments, since March of 2022. And now I have finished it. I thoroughly…
This seems like a good time to re-post this three-part series. It remains one of the best pieces I’ve written. Part one, my Jewish identity: my journey to palestinian solidarity…
Right now the State of Israel is committing genocide against the people of Gaza. Many humans around the globe are horrified, grieving, raging. But people with the power to stop…
Cory Doctorow’s novel For the Win may have been the most unexpected title on my Labour Book Club booklist. It’s kind of science fiction (but not really), kind of YA…
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Port Hardy was especially meaningful this year. Not quite as many people joined the walk as in the previous two years, but there…
I had two recent experiences that I want to preserve on wmtc — a trip to Victoria, and this year’s National Truth and Reconciliation Day ceremony in Port Hardy. *…
When I was in library school, much ink was spilled discussing a “crisis” of “boys not reading”. Countless articles were written, studies were launched, hands were wrung. How do we…
If the Hōkūle’a hadn’t come to Port Hardy, this book might have languished indefinitely on my Books Universe List*. The List is very long. Often Books Universe is the place…
These days I can’t blog about events or issues that are meaningful to me until they’re old news — which of course in today’s world can mean only days or…
In my ongoing efforts to make the Port Hardy Library a safer workplace, and a more comfortable space for customers, I was invited to a elders’ luncheon at the Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw…
Without a doubt, the most engaging talk I attended at the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association Conference was “Young Workers Rising,” a panel of young organizers interviewed by another young…
It has been on my mind, and on my to-do list, to write more about the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association Conference*, which I was fortunate to attend in May…
The news that Robbie Robertson died hit me hard. Although he’s not the last surviving member of The Band (Garth Hudson recently turned 80), he was my last surviving deep…
Long ago, when emailing first became widely used, I had several long-distance friendships that were conducted entirely by email. I noticed that almost every email began the same way: “Sorry…
Last week, I blogged about the upcoming visit of the Polynesian voyaging canoe Hōkūle’a. I was concerned that I might miss their Port Hardy stop, but as it turned out,…
An astounding event is taking place, and it seems to be happening under the mainstream radar. If I didn’t live in a Pacific coastal community, and if I weren’t actively…
I have been alive on this planet for 62 years. Somehow, inexplicably, it was June 13, 2023, and I passed birthday number 62. I find this fact stunning. I feel…
This post is written with permission. Recently on Facebook I announced that Allan, my partner, turns 60 this year, and he has already chosen a very special birthday present. We…
