Blogs
- Catching Courage – Where did you find strength when you lost a job, your best friend died, your partner walked out, or your finances took a nose dive? Stories, poems, videos, essays and research add up to a picture of what courage looks like, and where we catch it.
- This Gives Me Hope – if it’s true what we focus on is what we bring into the world, the more we know about what’s good and inspirational, the better world we’ll have. This gives me hope will give you plenty of reasons to cheer.
- Story Route is about stories, how we use them, what they mean, and why telling new stories can lead to change. Join me on the Story Route. We’ll explore personal stories, stories organizations tell, even some stories countries tell.
- Crossroads started with an eight-month journey that took my partner and me to tropical islands, New Zealand, and Australia. Now that we’re back in Kelowna, British Columbia, it continues to explore other crossroads.
Writing samples
Animal welfare
- George the Cat Comes Back
- Dog Found Five Days after Tragic Car Accident
- 8 Years Later, the Dog Came Home
- Puffin Found Walking Down Montreal Street
- End Cruelties of Scottish Deer Cull
- Killing Bambi: What to Do When Deer Are Dangerous
- Bear Hitches a Ride to Downtown Vancouver
- Chimps More Like Us Than We Knew, Share Food with Each Other
- Inhumane Horse Slaughtering in Quebec
- Starving Horses Abandoned by Owners
- Dolphin Dies After Deafening Rave at Park
- Pony Set on Fire and Left to Die
- More Than 200,000 Animals Used in UBC Experiments in 2010
- Driving Sheep through Madrid Streets
- Mideast Nations Agree to Halt Slaughter of Australian Sheep
- Pit Bull Is Neighbor of the Year for Saving Woman’s Life
- Knit a Sweater, Save a Penguin
- Bear Cub Shops for Fruit
- Zoo Polar Bear Turns on Her Newborns
- Pizza-Eating Bear in Whistler, B.C.
- Is Google Encouraging Pig Abuse?
- Slaughtering Seals As a Precautionary Approach
- Culling Wolves Will Not Save Caribou
- Was the Baby Seal Rescued or Kidnapped?
- Moose Gets Stuck in Apple Tree
- British Columbia Joins War on Wolves
- Dolphins May Understand Death
- Bat Fungus Wiping Out Our Flying Friends
- Australia Resumes Cattle Shipments to Indonesian Slaughterhouses
- B.C. Man Arrested for Smuggling Bear Paws
- Smart Dog Upstages Humans
- A Year After Boats Shatter His Shell, Turtle Swims Free
- How Many Rodeo Deaths Are Too Many?
- North Carolina Indictment a Victory for Lab Animals
- Saving Tasmanian Devils May Lead to Cancer Treatments
- Protesting Royals at the Rodeo
- Long, Slow Death of a Sea Turtle
Environment
- Publisher to MPs: Read This and Stop Ignoring Climate Change
- Harper Government’s War on Environmentalists
- Smashing a World Record to Smash Plastic Pollution
- Climate Change Irreversible by 2017, Warns IEA
- Young People Buying Tech Instead of Cars
- Grab a Lawn Chair & Celebrate PARK(ing) Day
- Solar Lights for a Million Filipino Homes
- The End of Tiny Toiletry Bottles?
- Climate Change Hits Women First and Hardest
- Saving the Planet One Clothesline at a Time
Food issues
- Chicken Nugget Diet Lands 17-Year-Old Girl in Hospital
- FDA Restricts Some Antibiotics in Livestock
- This News Could Kill You: FDA & Antibiotics
- Free-Range Hens Less Carbon Friendly
- People’s Court Puts Agrochemical Giants on Trial
- Forget Cereal – Feed Your Kids Twinkies
- Big Food Losing Control of Label Secrets
- Blood on the Egg McMuffins, Buying Cruelty with Breakfast
- Hospital May Refuse McDonald’s “WeightWash” Donation
- Victory for San Francisco’s Free Farm Stand
- Squeeze This Rice, and It Drips Blood
- What Passes for Honey on U.S. Shelves
- Crowdsourced Calories Replace Food Logs
- Girl Scouts Go Locavore
- Soft Drink Foxes in the Children’s Henhouse
- Let Them Eat Nothing—No Lunch for Prisoners
- 3 Ways to Celebrate World Food Day Every Day
- Farm to School Sprouting in Canada
- Kick That Chemical Habit—October Unprocessed
- Trashing Cows: Tyson Recalls Ground Beef
- Palm Oil or Rainforests – You Decide
- Probiotics for Chickens – an Alternative to Antibiotics?
- Subsidizing Sickness – U.S. Tax Dollars at Work
- Burgers and Frieds with Your Surgery?
- Cargill Recalls Ground Turkey, Again
- Save the Tomatoes: Plant the Seeds of Biodiversity
- Wine Trumps Salmon in War Over Water
- Golden Rice and Other GMO Fairy Tales
- Take That, Monsanto: GMOs Not Sustainable
- Family Kicks the Junk Food Habit
- Tradition of Jewish Farming Renewed in U.S.
- Big Ag Circles the Wagons Against Activists
- A Better Way to Understand Obesity’s Impact
- Research Links Monsanto’s Roundup to Root Fungus
- Burger Chain Says Eat Less Meat
- Monsanto Corn at Farm Markets?
- Manhattan Farm Flourishes in Milk Crates
- Drug Resistant Salmonella in Ground Turkey
- Say No to GMO with True Food Shopper’s Guide
- Chicken Nuggets and the Death of Watersheds
- Minnesota Court Says Drifting Pesticides Are Trespassing
- Monocropped Bananas Flirting with Extinction
- Is India the Canary in the Hunger Mineshaft?
- Urban Farmer Told to Shut Down or Face Legal Action
- EWG Tackles Meat, Cheese and the Environment
- Planting Seeds of Hope and Community
- GM Fish Study Raises Red Flags
- New Study Says “Food Deserts” Only Part of the Problem
- Aquaculture for a Hungry World
- Canada Safeway Joins Sustainable Seafood Movement
- Toronto’s Push-Pull on Local Food
LGBT
- Fiery Feminist Virginia Woolf
- Lesbian Couple Booted from Tim Horton’s
- Constance McMillen
- Amelie Mauresmo
- Activist Dan Choi
- New Baby Has Two Dads
Politics
- Lucene Charles Deportation Deferred
- Average Canadian Wage Increase: CEO 27%, Average Joe 0%
- Occupy Kelowna Joins the ‘Occupy Wall Street Movement
- Potheads Fare Worse Than Child Rapists in Canadian Crime Bill
- Michele Bachmann, You Can’t Pray the Gay Away
- Canada Changed on September 11
- When “Squelching Scientific Inquiry” Is Prudent
- Blacklisted Canadian Artist Becoming Mosquito in Government’s Ear
- Harper Government Trying to Silence Canadian Artist
- Canada’s Rich Forget to Trickle Their Money Down
Storytelling
- The Power of Story
- The risks the storyteller takes
- Laura Ingersoll Secord—a Canadian heroine
- Stories Color Our Lives
- Stories Should Honor 9/11 Victims But Not Define Pre- and Post-9/11 Culture
- Q&A on storytelling
- Climate Change Myths and the Actions That Follow
- The Art of the Story
- Seven Lessons
- Storytelling – the rope that binds us
Travel
Other
- Reddit Crowdsources $65,000 for Kenyan Orphanage
- Anonymous Angels Pay Layaway Debts for Struggling Shoppers
- Secret Santa Passes Out $100 Bills
- Stolen Brides of Kyrgyzstan
- Are Hospital Parking Fees a Health Issue?
- Skirt-Wearing Boy Nominated for Human Rights Award
- Creative Protest: Pepper Spray Reviews on Amazon
- 7 Ways to Be Grateful on Thanksgiving and All Year
- Rob from the Rich, Give to the Poor
- 94-Year-Old Firefighter
- Bra-Burning in Japan
- Poet Langston Hughes
- Tablet Computers for India’s Rural Children
- Mid-life Crisis Becomes 11-Year Walk for Peace
- An End to Violence? Could the Dream Be in Sight?
- Farewell, Wangari Maathai, Hummingbird of Hope
- Antibiotics Don’t Stand a Chance Against Superbugs
- Justice for Murdered and Missing First Nations Women
- Heroism and Luck Save a Motorcyclist
- EU Copyright Extension: Boon or Censorship?
- Little Girls Steal Goat for Midnight Prank
- 7-Year-Old Points to Brighter Future
- Old and Healthy? Thank Your Genes
- B.C. Woman Asks for Right to Assisted Suicide
- Canadian Cancer Society Spends More on Fundraising Than Research
- No Corporate Logos in Our School
Other Stories and poems
- Fashion Statement (American Cowboy)
- Stock Talk Christmas Eve (American Cowboy)
- Water Plays Cupid (PDF) or mp3 (first recorded on CBC’s Definitely Not the Opera)


