Communicating Scientific Results to Local Communities: BC Floods 2018
The top disaster news in the past few weeks has been major flooding in communities across Canada. From New Brunswick to Alberta and British Columbia, … Read more
Communicating Wildfire
*Edited 21 May to add books by Michael Kodas and Gary Ferguson. 2017 was the worst wildfire season on record in BC. A total of … Read more
Writing a Book (Part 2)
The past few months have been pretty busy. Then suddenly it all stopped, with the exception of one book review for Science. As I wrote … Read more
Bad Things Come in Threes
My veggie garden is overrun with weeds. Not just a few here and there, but mats of weeds invading each raised bed. There are a … Read more
Are You Self-Promoting or Bragging?: Balancing Your Exterior and Interior Lives
Earlier this year, American writer Dani Shapiro published a piece at LitHub about balancing social media and writing. She recounts how she sent out a … Read more
Spring: Snow, Water, Wildfire, and Gardening
The BC River Forecast Centre (RFC) released their April 1 snow survey bulletin this week. April 1st snow water equivalent (the depth of water you’d … Read more
Coming to Terms with the Past
Since I had my knee injury I’ve been sitting around pretty much doing nothing. I regularly ice my knee, and do loops around the house … Read more
Wild Geese
This week has been a bit much. In good news, my book review came out in Science, and my first literary piece comes out at … Read more
A Single Moment
In her memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion focuses on how life can change in a single moment. Her husband dies suddenly, while … Read more