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Everyone Hates a Vegetarian
January 12, 2015My foot squished with water when I stepped into the shoe repair shop. I was looking for waterproofing spray. My shoes were old leather ones that I had bought second hand, and I didn’t think they’d be half as spongy as they were in wet weather. Holding a can of mink spray, I asked the friendly owner if it was made of real mink. He jutted his head out. “Of course,” he said, and delved into the many benefits of real mink. I shouldn’t have said it. “Hmm, I don’t really like using animal products,” I admitted, in a store…
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Me, Himself & I
January 6, 2015I couldn’t sleep. My mind was going crazy. It was the night before my first day of high school and I couldn’t have been less excited. Facing the prospect of my first day of eighth grade in a strange new school…
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Dying for it
November 17, 2014To be honest, I probably think about death too much. My continuously growing list of unreasonable fears — including sharks, sink holes, stray bullets, black holes, and death by accidentally tripping and hitting the pavement with my teeth in a way…
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Life on the Pale Blue Dot
September 29, 2014As you are reading this, you are currently hurtling through space on a remote chunk of rock, covered mostly in water and protected by a thin layer of atmosphere, at a speed of about 460 metres per second. This tiny…
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Have a little faith
September 22, 2014Religion. It’s a word that people tend to avoid using; one of those topics that often gets swept under the rug and doesn’t make its way into everyday conversation. I can talk to my best friend about TV shows, what…
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Stealing culture
September 15, 2014I don’t particularly like being told what to do, and I like having my intentions misinterpreted even less; it’s these predispositions that have made cultural appropriation a difficult issue for me to work through. Of course, it’s easy to look at…
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Fear of a yellow planet
September 8, 2014Back in those halcyon days when I had home-recorded VHS tapes and late-night cartoon marathons in lieu of summer jobs and print deadlines, my sister and I would exhaust each and every Simpsons videotape we owned, to the point where…
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Why I’m siding with BC teachers
September 8, 2014On June 5, 2001, when I was just seven years old, Christy Clark began her reign as BC’s Education Minister. The BC Liberals, a party Clark now leads, ran on a platform entitled “A New Era for British Columbia” which…
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