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Le weekend
Originally published in June 2012 in Blog
Hot off the press
Originally published in April 2012 in Blog
My latest article … The healthy house Photography by Shai Gil Four years ago, when Toronto’s Superkül transformed a derelict blacksmith’s shop on a narrow city laneway into a sustainable single-family home, the firm’s preservationist aesthetic went viral with design critics and tree huggers alike. With their latest residential project, in rural Ontario, principals Andre D’Elia and Meg Graham faced […]
Spotlight: Growing Pains
Originally published in April 2012 in Blog
SPOTLIGHT is Society Pages’ newest column focusing on questionable occurrences. Read other columns here. A dozen years ago, when the thought of becoming an academic art historian had lost its luster, I found myself throwing all of my investigative energy into a more personal story. This was back when I was trying to break into journalism, with no […]
Hot off the press
Originally published in August 2011 in Blog
The big reveal
Originally published in May 2011 in Blog
How would you feel if genome analysis revealed you were predisposed to “early sudden death” from vascular disease? Less hungry for chips? Determined to blow all your savings in Vegas and have as much sex as the day is long? And what if a message in your inbox from a lab in sunny California coldly […]
The secret to longevity
Originally published in December 2010 in Chatelaine
What do most major life-threatening illnesses have in common? It’s not genetics or lifestyle, but chronic inflammation. Fighting this silent fire within will not only help you live longer, it will help you live better. Read on to find out how to tame the flame Women are strong. Our immune systems respond better to trauma […]
Sandbox tools
Originally published in June 2010 in Blog
Before the sun sets on today, do at least one playful thing. Laughing out loud definitely counts. If you’ve already laughed, do it again. You’ve got seven more hours to find something funny. The progress of the world depends on it. Really. From an evolutionary standpoint, humans are supposed to be pretty playful creatures compared […]
You snooze, you lose
Originally published in May 2010 in Blog
Since when did sleep become the enemy? Was it when Martha Stewart gloated that she only needed three or four hours of it every night? Is that when the rest of us (this writer excluded) began pasting determined smiles over our exhausted bodies, when Martha taught us that less sleep = more corporate success? And […]
