Earth in its elemental form is smooth, shiny wet and a motley of muted colors. The Tawas lake bed I spent the morning picking up rocks from the sandbed, turning them over in my hand as I waded ankle-deep in the cool lake water. It’s […]

Hello world! It feels like I’m somewhat emerging from a period of non-writing hibernation. There’s too much to say about what’s been going on in my world the past few months – my existential crisis about being in year 4 of my PhD and wishing […]

This week has been an exciting one indeed, with the first shipments of the vaccine arriving in Canada and the unprecedented in the history of science and medicine materializing before our eyes: a vaccine developed in just 18 months. But with all the hubbub and […]

This is the 6th installation of the micah 6.8 series, in which I explore how faith influences our everyday life. If you haven’t read the other installations, you can start here: Part 1: never productive enough, Part 2: the food we eat, Part 3: the beauty we create, […]

I don’t like being political. When my sister and dad get into their debates that somehow always circle back to the subject of “yay-or-nay Trump”, I prefer to remain silent. “Don’t you have an opinion?” my sis once asked me, frustrated when I hadn’t backed […]