Mental Health, Mindfulness and Life Reflections

Consanguinity Part 2: Pangolins and Pathogens

Nine years before the COVID-19 pandemic, Steven Soderbergh’s film, Contagion, presaged the current outbreak.  The compelling narrative aside, it was the film’s…

Finding Allies in All Things Green

It is now reported that approximate half the world in living in some form of mandatory isolation or lockdown. The…

Solitude, Part One: Living Well Alone

The COVID-19 pandemic has relegated most people to their homes.  In many countries, people are burrowed deep in their nests.  The streets…

Consanguinity, Part One: Blood Relations

I’ve always been intriqued by the mysterious workings of viruses and bacteria, those invisible microbes that number in the trillions…

March 2020, Silent Spring. . .

This morning I stepped onto the street and was caught by a peculiar silence rarely heard in Vancouver.  Broadway was bare.  The…