I went Saturday night to The River, a Nakai production, with Michael Greyeyes directing a play written by David Skelton, Judith Rudakoff and Joseph Tisiga. To be frank, I wasn’t sure if I was interested in what I thought would be a sermon on homelessness. I just didn’t want the guilt. (And yes, I’m ashamed [...]
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There Are Stories You’ve Never Heard, Brilliantly Told: a review of The River 1 comment
The Future of the Yukon (maybe): Radio Series “Yukon 2058″ 1 comment
We hear a lot about the future of New York, of San Francisco, of England. Ever wondered what the NORTH would look like in 50 years? What would be happening, what kinds of trends here in the Yukon? What kinds of possibilities? Is it all going to be dark from climate change, or will we [...]
Mac’s Fireweed, Noon, Saturday, signing with me and Dave Strachan Leave a comment
Thanks everyone for coming out and being a part of our signing at Mac’s Fireweed! Two anthologies I’m a part of: Tesseracts 14 and Inhuman, and Dave Strachan, who has the lead story in Inhuman, was signing too! The Fantasy/Science Fiction community in Whitehorse is doing great! More and more of our group are stretching [...]
Moose, Cranberry, and the Everlasting Dinner Party: The Boreal Gourmet, cookbook, by Michele Genest Leave a comment
You’ve already seen the wonderful wildberry sourdough muffins recipe which I so tantalized you with (permission granted by Miche). Now experience what cooks and connoisseurs are talking about in The Boreal Gourmet: Adventures in Northern Cooking by Michele Genest. The book is more than a cookbook–it is a memoir of the cooking experience, the preparation, [...]
Wildberry Sourdough Muffins recipe from The Boreal Gourmet, by Michele Genest 2 comments
Breakfast-eaters, snackers, hangers-out: it’s time to reclaim the muffin from the fast-food joints and even from the groovy independent cafes. _____________________________________ Like the picture? Get more recipes like the one below from our very own Yukon Boreal Gourmet, Michele Genest. Her book, the Boreal Gourmet, just got a nice, nice, tasty review from GEIST. _____________________________________ [...]
My Year of Canadian Reading: what stories are you made of? 6 comments
I Claudius, I Gertrude, I Polonius, I Hamlet: the humanity and unity of Bhaneja’s Hamlet {solo} 3 comments
I just returned from a brilliant rendition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Yukon Arts Centre. One man, Raoul Bhaneja, did the whole play–or an edited version of the whole play–but he did every part, not just Hamlet’s soliloquies. He had a box of light and an edge of darkness that he ran around making us [...]
Whitehorse, curtained in icefog and woodsmoke, revealed in shrouded segments Leave a comment
Just a reality of living in the north, these -40 nights, where the icefog and the woodsmoke turned back on the streets mingle together to hide the city. It’s mysterious and lovely. Dangerous to drive in. I couldn’t see the next segment until it was revealed. People crossed second street without tapping the crossing light [...]
Baked Café: Purveyors of Fine Coffees, Good Foods, and Perfect Days 5 comments
A perfect day, and I’ve had them before, almost always contains a visit to Baked Café. Some days I just come to sit on the black couches and look out the windows at Whitehorse going by. Sometimes I bring a book to read. Sometimes I plan official meetings there. Other times I arrange to meet [...]
Writing Your Faith: Workshop offered in January at the United Church 1 comment
What is Faith to you? How do you think about it? How do you put it into words–to tell someone else what it means to you? Does it only appear when you are going through struggles? Is it constant like gravity? I like this photograph by Grigory Kravchenko. The woman looks up, but it looks [...]
