

- Aug 4
- 2 min
The People I Meet—Dan and Fitz.
Left to right: Dan and Fitz Yesterday, Donald Trump Jnr, the 45th president of the United States, was indicted on four counts in federal...


- Aug 1
- 3 min
The People I Meet. The kindness of strangers, Mountain View, Alberta
Luana and Kendall Payne. I’m parked on Kendall’s land—miles of rolling green grasslands with grazing cattle in Mountain View, Alberta....


- Aug 1
- 3 min
The People I Meet - CLassy Conch
Photo: Cathy Spencer with her horses Diesel and Diamond. “Do you speak English in South Africa?” asks Jaime. “Yes!” comes the chorus from...


- Jul 23
- 5 min
Leaving home, July 2023
I watered my garden—a deep soak for a hot day. I refreshed the birdbath, checked the hummingbird feeder and smiled at the roses. A...


- Jul 15
- 3 min
Just pull yourself together, Julie.
“Just pull yourself together, Julie.” I hear my mother's voice in my head. I’m doing a lot of pulling myself together. I share my...


- Jul 14
- 4 min
The People I Meet—Jennifer Handley, Mayor of Nanton, July 2023
Feeling a little insecure after four days of being loved up and spoilt by my friend Sul-ra in Calgary, I’m on the road to nowhere again...


- Jan 16, 2021
- 7 min
A moment of grace.
The hired car bounced over potholes, past piles of squalid garbage, stray dogs, tattered children and shabby homes. A south-easterly wind...


- Jun 15, 2020
- 6 min
An “AHA moment; or not?
I would walk away. Nothing, not even the dark legacy of apartheid, would propel me to do what I believed to be wrong.