One of my great pleasures of the last couple of months has been watching my eight-year-old daughter participate in the Vermont Ballet Theater‘s production of The Nutcracker. This year she’s playing the part of an Angel. It’s been a long process of rehearsals which culminates in two performances in at the Dibden Center for the [...]
It’s time for Canada to step up
I’m one of many, many Canadians who is tired of hearing this rhetoric from the Canadian government about how they won’t sign on to any climate treaty without the US doing the same. Canada could play a leading role in this fight and we’re looked at around the world right now as a country that’s [...]
Tags: climate change, global warming
18 years ago today
Every year on December 6, I mark the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre by taking a moment of silence in class after reading the names of the murdered women. Talking to my students, the vast majority of whom have never heard of the events of eighteen years ago even though it happened only about 90 [...]
Spring teaching
It’s going to be a busy Spring semester for me, teaching three classes, plus a one-credit winter session course on Margaret Atwood which runs for the two weeks prior to the start of the new semester on Jan 14. I’m teaching two sections of English 182: Colonial/Postcolonial World literatures in English and a senior seminar [...]