Sarah Cobb
Laird Brown was a mensch, a unique human, a brewer of tea, a baker of shortbread, a life coach, counsellor, stepdad, partner, friend. He died on September 25, 2022.
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Not unlike plants, people’s genes have altered to facilitate adaptation to their environment long before humans first settled into agrarian communities.
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Find some trees. Stand among them. Take a deep breath of the fresh air they made and think about the light you can bring to those around you.
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Like everyone else, spring for me this year meant spending a great deal of time at home with my family. We decided to invest in some bird feeders – invasion of the squirrels be damned– and play host to the local population. The number of winged friends exploded as spring progressed. Watching them flit around,…
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You’re doing your best. You’re eating less meat, accumulating less stuff, buying local and organic. You’re cutting down on plastics, you’ve made your house more energy-efficient and maybe even switched to an electric vehicle. But faced with the thought of not taking that trip you’ve been dreaming of is getting you down. I could say…
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Susan Scott began her studies in Graphic Design at the Central School of Art and Design in London, England and was recruited at her graduate show to join Crosby, Fletcher, Forbes (now Pentagram). She began her Canadian career as a book designer for McClelland & Stewart in Toronto before moving to Montreal where she continued…
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In the early 1900s, a newspaper, frustrated by the slow-drying newsprint in the hot, humid Brooklyn summer, hired an engineering school graduate to come up with a solution. Young Willis Carrier devised a machine that pulled the moisture out of the air in the press room. Not long after it was installed, the lunchroom emptied…
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I so vividly remember sitting across from Vicki Tansey, watching her paint my three-year-old’s face just a few weeks after my husband and I and our three kids had made the big move from Montreal to Abercorn. I was like a fish out of water, having spent the first 36 years of my life in…
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