Tag: culture
member name: Betty Dobson
|
May 28, 2006 10:53 PM EDT --
Prevailing American wisdom holds that most Canadians live in igloos, or so we Canadians have been told all our lives. I could probably build an igloo in my backyard this week, but that's beside the . . .
more
|
|
June 22, 2006 08:52 PM EDT --
My article "A Bunch of Rocks: The Environmental Gutting of Malta", which I posted yesterday (June 21), has been selected as Editors' Choice and will appear on the Gather home page starting . . .
more
|
|
August 12, 2006 10:36 PM EDT --
After subscribing to their newsletter for the last half eon or so, I finally decided to get off the fence and join the Canadian Federation of Poets.
More than that, I figured I might as well get involved . . .
more
|
|
August 12, 2006 04:15 PM EDT --
InkSpotter Publishing is currently accepting submissions of holiday-themed personal essays and poetry for its inaugural e-book, Holiday Writes.
When you hear the word holiday, you might automatically . . .
more
|
|
May 28, 2006 10:27 PM EDT --
Is there anyone who has not admired nature's bucktoothed beauty for one reason or another? Beavers are cute, resourceful, and--in cartoon world, at least--look mighty impressive in their hardhats. . . .
more
|
|
May 25, 2006 10:32 PM EDT --
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World is surprisingly interesting--a history lesson tied together by an unusual but effective theme.
Author Mark Kurlansky begins in the modern day, observing . . .
more
|
|
May 28, 2006 11:06 PM EDT --
For most Canadians, the haunting cry of the Common Loon is a familiar sound, heard at lakefronts and on our television sets. The unmistakable sound is often compared to a yodel or a laugh.
The loon is . . .
more
|
|
May 25, 2006 05:20 PM EDT --
William B. Hamilton loves to talk--about history in general and his new book in particular.
We'd no sooner settled in at one of the Waverley Inn's breakfast room tables than he'd launched . . .
more
|
|
May 27, 2006 08:18 PM EDT --
Sometimes, you have to leave the home you know to find the home you love.
That's what happened to Golumba Kim in 1997. She felt dissatisfied with life in her native Korea and decided to make a fresh . . .
more
|
|
|
|
