Japan: A Food Essay
TOKYO Day 1: navigating Shinjuku station, taking in the pulse of Shibuya crossing, line ups for bubble tea across the street, wandering the lantern lit alleys of golden gai On the menu:… Read More
Good Heads & Hearts in Dharavi
You must have it a good heads, to like these things, and you must be having a good hearts, to not like them too much…Now my Bombay, with your good heads… Read More
Lunch with a Monk
It’s eleven o’clock in the morning and I can feel the beginning stages of a full-blown hanger attack creeping in, the type of irrational wrath and fury that can only come from… Read More
Why Language Matters in Marseille (and why it doesn’t)
The Mediterranean breeze welcomes me in a warm hug as I step off the plane and onto the tarmac. After two rainy days in Edinburgh we had made it to Marseille, gritty… Read More
Notes from Indonesia
Canguu: The shore off Brawa beach is a yard sale of flying boards and bodies as the Indian Ocean devours beginner surfers on its unrelenting march to the shore. Kite surfers crisscross… Read More
Notes from the West Highland Way
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I… Read More
Photoessay: Isle of Skye
After walking ourselves to Fort William, covering some 140 kilometers over 5 days, I sat in the back seat of Ross’ little red car and relished the speed at which the landscape… Read More
Notes from the West Coast Trail
An adventure in which five women carry a combined one-hundred-and-ninety pounds of food, shelter and vodka seventy-five kilometers down the coast of Canada’s Vancouver Island. *** Day 1: Port Renfrew to Camper… Read More
Reflections on Paris, Fear and the Gift of Travel
Sitting next to the glow of the fire while the storm howled outside, I watched as the wind swept a girl wrapped in an oversized scarf into our hostel. Eyes wild with… Read More
A Pint at the End of the Earth
“Following me now, are yous?” came a chuckle from behind, as we gingerly made our way down a set of narrow steps towards the sea. We turned to see Jack, the man… Read More
Beyond the Aurora
“Where you folks from?” asks a weathered-looking woman standing at the front of the airport shuttle, eying me up and down as though already quite certain of the answer. Hailing from Toronto,… Read More
A Word for 2015
As January plunges Toronto into a deep freeze, the hot and sticky memories of Southeast Asia have all but receded to the far corners of my mind, as if hiding from the… Read More
Cooking with Emotion in Chiang Mai
“Cook with your emooooootion,” instructs Indy, our young Thai cooking teacher, elongating each vowel as she tosses ingredients into the hot oil in one fluid motion. We stand in front of our… Read More
The Lifeblood of Kainakary Village
I woke well before the knock on my door came at 6:55. He had interrupted our blissful evening about twelve hours earlier, sliding alongside our houseboat in his narrow canoe to make… Read More
A Weekend by the Lake
I took the familiar left hand turn onto Limberlost Road and punched the trip button on the odometer. Twelve kilometers to the next turn – Alix’s directions were always exact. The cottage… Read More
