https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/08/26/Breaking-Primary-Care-Logjam/ Article in 26 August Tyee about the primary care crisis in British Columbia
My Doctor Dumped Me
My doctor did indeed dump me, and all his patients, to move to a private health care corporation. See my opinion piece in The Tyee: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/01/05/Doctor-Dumped-Me-Common
Writing for the Public: Tips
Academics often ask me for tips about writing newspaper and magazine articles, blogs, and books for public audiences. Below are a few simple ideas: Brevity: My mantra is “cut out half the words and get to the point.” We academics…
Writer in Residence!
Thrilled to announce that I’ve been appointed the SFU Library’s Inaugural Nonfiction Writer in Residence for 2020/2021. I’ll be working with graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff on writing for public audiences.
Listening to the Bees one-pager
Synchrony
Bees, dance, playgrounds and children’s books came together unexpectedly in Toronto last week, along with synchrony, the idea of simultaneous occurrence or motion. The children’s book was not so much the book as its author JonArno Lawson, whom I met…
Short-listed for the Canadian Science Writers Award
Very excited that Bee Time: Lessons From the Hive has been short-listed for the 2014 Science Book Award from the Canadian Science Writers Association http://sciencewriters.ca/awards/book-awards/ It’s in some very good company!
On My 65th Birthday
I turned 65 a few hours ago. It’s an age of significance more for historical reasons than on its own merits, as it used to be the age when retirement was expected, and usually forced. Retirement at 65 became the…
Senior Moments
“Perhaps I have reached the age at which those who have been through the wash-and-spin cycle a few times become seized by the notion that their own experience in the suds may be relevant to others.” Margaret Atwood, “Negotiating with…