We've been blessed by our amazing contributors. So contributors, or aspiring contributors, why not share your story with an even larger audience? The Whistler Question has launched a new personal essays section, a la the Globe and Mail's Facts and Arguments page: Here's the official Call for Entry When: Ongoing call for stories Where: The Whistler Question … Continue reading Share your story: Personal Essays wanted for the Question
Technically, I’m a vegetarian. Have been for over 20 years. Pretty much since I was in a position to say “this is what’s going into my body, and this is not, “I’ve taken a left turn at eating anything that used to have a heartbeat. But when Chef Randy Jones says “try this” and slides … Continue reading Column: When the best place to be is in the kitchen… being cooked for
Riva Fisher has a tattoo of Mt Currie running along the length of her ring finger. “What did your parents say?” I ask. “They loved it.” It's the view from the house she grew up in. When she was 18, the Pemberton-raised Fisher spent her first year of University in New Zealand, where her father, … Continue reading How many reasons to dance do you need?
There is a microsecond long window when a baby falls asleep that everything is right in the world. My personal victory today? Resisting taking a photo of that moment. The kid is 23 months old, so I already have approximately 700 photos of him sleeping, none of which have successfully managed to evoke the heart-swell … Continue reading Column: Why I Don’t Need Another Photo of my Sleeping Baby
I cracked a filling. At first, I thought it was a chunk of actual tooth and my childhood nightmare of teeth crumbling out of my mouth was coming true. Maybe the dental hygienist was right, four years ago, when she suggested I might be a clencher. The jaw is incredibly powerful, she told me, as … Continue reading Column: Awareness First
I’m pretty much the least qualified person in the entire Sea to Sky corridor to write a column about Wellness. Surrounded by farmers, pro athletes, amateur IRONMEN, raw food gurus, yogis, RMTs, naturalists and other wise folk, I keep bumping hard up against my own ignorance about how the body works, how to feed the … Continue reading Column: Cramming for the Apocalypse
I am not a columnist. I prefer asking questions to offering opinions (unless I'm at a dinner party and a little sauced.) And my skin isn't thick enough to put my unfootnoted thinking all naked out into the world on a regular basis. And I'm not funny (like my favourite columnists are - to wit: … Continue reading The Wellness Almanac In Print: This Week in the Question
If you met me, you'd figure out fairly quickly that I'm Australian. You will probably infer from that, that my skin is prematurely sun-damaged, that I'm a goof surfer, that I get irrationally excited to discover Vegemite or mangoes as part of a breakfast spread, that I think Christmas Day should be celebrated out of … Continue reading Why Nick Davies’ column bothers me
Great to pick up a copy of this week's Whistler Question and read about Henry McDermott, Lindsay May and Shannon Ellis and the Pemberton and District Library being recognised at last week's Wellness Awards. “You always wonder, ‘Am I doing the right thing here? Am I doing a good job?’ And to hear a whole … Continue reading Shout Out: News-makers, Wellness Recognition award winners
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