Why do people behave the way they do? How can you boost well-being? What are some tips for parents? Where can you catch cool art? These are some of the questions I explore in outlets like The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail and Discover magazine. I particularly love taking complex topics and presenting them in ways that are easy to understand and fascinating to read.
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(The Dance Current)
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Here’s a very small selection of examples:
Psychology and well-being
- How to reset your goals (The Globe and Mail)
- Why and how to give your brain a break (The Globe and Mail)
- To ease menopause symptoms, add a little melody (TIME)
- How to age well, superhero-style (TIME)
- Is luck real, and can you change yours? It’s complicated. (The Washington Post)
- Why your belongings hold so much meaning, and how to decide what to grab in an emergency. (The Washington Post)
- Large events can be cesspools of germs. Here’s why we ache for them, anyway. (The Washington Post)
- Pandemic got you down? Psychologists suggest time travel — sort of. (The Washington Post)
- Nap time is the new coffee break. Here’s how to make the most of it. (The Washington Post)
- Food gone bad: Why the best-before date doesn’t tell you much (Healthing.ca)
- Looking to make the pandemic more bearable? Get a plant (Healthing.ca)
- Why some people are more optimistic than others — and why it matters (The Washington Post)
- Having coronavirus nightmares? Here’s what you can do about those bad dreams. (The Washington Post)
- Why solving puzzles feels so satisfying, especially during a quarantine (The Washington Post)
- Knock on wood (Discover)
Arts and culture
- Kootenay artisans at work (ARTiculate)
- The trials of running a small-town theatre (The Dance Current)
- Get the nitty gritty: build personal grit to propel your goals (Dance Magazine)
- Days long gone (ARTiculate)
- Traditional and tumultuous (ARTiculate)
- More dancers experience high levels of shame than the average person. Here’s what you can do (Dance Magazine)
- What’s that ratty pair of pointe shoes doing to your feet? (Pointe Magazine)
- Dancing hones your body, but what does it do to your brain? (Dance Magazine)
- To reflect or not to reflect: Should dance teachers stop using mirrors? (Dance Teacher)
- Look, Mom! a Van Gogh!: Why artistic masterpieces matter to teens (Parent.co)
- Welding a vision (ARTiculate)
- Thinking small (The Dance Current)
- Two days & three hundred knights (Kootenay Mountain Culture)
Parenting
- A pandemic tradition worth keeping: Walking together. (The Washington Post)
- Friday night is pizza night. How weekend choices undermine our kids’ healthy eating habits. (The Washington Post)
- A new study shows what many of us already believe: Dogs are good for kids (The Washington Post)
- The perks of being an empty nester (Discover)
Other non-fiction
- At the ‘center’ of a controversy: a defence of Canadian spelling (The Globe and Mail)
- I’ve been daydreaming about moving back to a city – I should be careful what I wish for (The Globe and Mail)
- After a year of covid life, we’ve run out of things to talk about. Try these conversation tips. (The Washington Post)
- Nauseous: A (pre-pandemic) love triangle (Polemical Zine)
- Why we razed our garden to the ground (The Globe and Mail)
- I’m determined to become bilingual—but it’s okay that my kids are not (The Globe and Mail)
- I thought I was the only Galadriel (The Globe and Mail)
- A marriage to music (Won the professional non-fiction category of CBC Radio One’s Alberta Anthology 2004, plus received honorable mention in the 1997 Writer’s Digest Writing Competition.)
Fiction
- My short story “Mouthwash and mass destruction” was published in The Lamp Journal, Volume 8 (2018).
- One of my short stories was a finalist in the 2016 Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for Literary Excellence (The Puritan).
Testimonials
- This turned out super well! — TIME editor
- It’s a wonderful article. — expert interviewed for a newspaper article
- It’s very nicely written, your voice is strong and I like the humour. — Globe and Mail editor
- Beautifully written… It brought tears to my eyes. — expert interviewed for a newspaper article
- Keep on doing what you’re doing!! — reader
- You did a really smart piece and I was pleased to be part of it. — expert interviewed for a newspaper article
- I want to thank you a lot for the well written and accurate article. I have seen only a few so good on scientific topics. It’s being shared a lot in the scientific community and it is being really appreciated. — expert interviewed for a newspaper article
- Really nice work. — Globe and Mail editor
- This is great! You’re a really natural writer. — Maisonneuve editor
- What a wonderful article. You are a wonderful writer. — expert interviewed for a magazine article
- I was so thrilled to read your beautiful and uplifting article on the empty nest syndrome experienced by many whose kids leave home for the first time. It really put a silver lining on my gray clouds! — Discover magazine reader
- You do top notch work—one of the best freelancers I’ve had out of the gate. — Kootenay Business Magazine editor
- I’ve talked to a lot of reporters and compared to most of them, you really asked the right questions. — expert interviewed for a magazine article
- Congratulations on a very well researched article. — expert interviewed for a magazine article
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