Mental Health
In 2022, I first mentioned my skin picking to my then-psychiatrist. During this appointment, she first thought it was a form of self-harm, but realized it was dermatillomania (or, excoriation disorder) after I further explained it. I was briefly aware of trichotillomania, but I didn’t know that dermatillomania was a health condition. I thought that […]
“I hate sports people.” In a crowded bar that had once been unknown to most people, my husband Christian and I wove our way around people standing in the middle of the space, staring at a projector screen that played a football game. Never before had this bar, our bar, shown sports on their projector; […]
Anatomy Sometimes, everything just fits. Like finding the blessed final piece that will complete a jigsaw puzzle. Like discovering the right lock for a key you inherited from a loved one. The problem is, we often can’t force these moments. They arise when we least expect them to. So often, we fall in love when […]
I am sitting in my office. Outside my window, the day is ordinary. Students walk across campus carrying coffee cups and backpacks. Colleagues pass by, discussing research, deadlines, and conferences. My inbox keeps filling with emails that expect replies. Life continues exactly as it should. Thousands of kilometres away, another war has begun in my […]
UNBREAKING THE NEWS
Spoiler alert: much of the plot of popular Netflix series The Diplomat centres around fears about Scottish independence. The spectre of that possibility leads British and U.S. politicians to commit acts which are unacceptable…or, truth be told, unspeakable. Fiction in this case may be stranger than reality, but the idea of an independent Scotland is […]
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