800 Clicks to Broadway
For at least a year after the Little Long Lac gold mine closed and our family left the country north of Superior for the city of Toronto, I could bring …
Read MoreJuly/August 2008
Travel and adventure reading from Paul Watson, Michael Redhill, Guy Gavriel Kay, Jane Urquhart, Miriam Toews, and Pico Iyer; Jon Turk relives his kayak trip around the island nation of Vanuatu; Wendy Dennis reflects on her time living in Austin, Texas; Jill Frayne explores the beauty and danger of lightning…
Skype Love
Are we drawn closer by being farther away?
Read MoreShelter from the Storm
Fathers and sons, architecture as refuge, and a family’s great loss
Read MoreSummer Time
A suggestion: It’s summer. Collapse into yourself. Remain where you are, with a good book in hand. That is, escape by staying put, on the couch or hammock, with your …
Read MoreAll the Way Home
I found myself in Austin, Texas
Read MoreSummertime, When the Visigoths Go Pillaging
There’s something intriguing about the currently received notion of summer as a season for escape. Once upon a very different time, if you were escaping in summer it was very …
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