Before sitting down in my consulting room, Matt A. stepped forward and shook my hand. He was an athletic and handsome forty-seven-year-old man. He wore […]
Category: Society
I Never Cared Much for Swords. Then I Had to Fight with One
On a grey November afternoon, clad in a borrowed—and somewhat smelly—fencing outfit, I spent two hours going through the basics of the aspiring duellist: saluting […]
Marriage Is Broken. A Colour-Coded Calendar Might Help
Efficiency is Nana Guenther’s love language. It is also her profession. The thirty-seven-year-old Torontonian spent a decade in corporate accounting before realizing that her true […]
How I Solved the Century-Old Mystery of a Miraculous Shipwreck Survivor
I t’s the morning of August 22, 2019, and I’m in a Zodiac bouncing along the waters of the St. Lawrence River. It can hold […]
Why Everyone You Know Is Suddenly a Birder
I can trace my personal descent into what science journalist Ed Yong calls “birder derangement syndrome” back to when I started referring to myself as […]