I reviewed The Diapause for @theglobeandmail.com. It’s CovidLit, yes, but also veers into near future sci fi. Feels like Force Majeure meets Station Eleven, and some of the most vivid prose I’ve read in a while.
04.01.2025 17:11 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@micahtoub.bsky.social
Features editor at Globe and Mail. Author of Growing Up Jung: Coming of Age as the Son of Two Shrinks. Pet columnist for West End Phoenix.
I reviewed The Diapause for @theglobeandmail.com. It’s CovidLit, yes, but also veers into near future sci fi. Feels like Force Majeure meets Station Eleven, and some of the most vivid prose I’ve read in a while.
04.01.2025 17:11 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They died because they were women.
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Dec. 6, 1989 Polytechnique Massacre. 14 women, most engineering students, were murdered by a misogynist gunman. December 6 is now the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
I was 15 when the École Polytechnique shooting happened. As an adult, women’s safety feels even more fragile.
By me (with a gift link):
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That must be a very small club! Have you honestly never had one? Do you have a “dumb phone”?
30.11.2024 19:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ever thought of putting your smartphone away forever? My Globe and Mail colleague @samedwards.bsky.social tried it for two weeks. And the results were... complicated. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
28.11.2024 14:40 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1As the Pet of the Month columnist at @westendphoenix.bsky.social, I've written about chickens, cats, horses, and canaries. For the latest issue, I wrote about my own dog! But the story is also about The Green Line, the parks and paths that run underneath the west end's hydro towers.
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