Shooting Roots Like many scholars and educators in higher education, I spent decades of my adult life living and moving from contract to...

“Once upon a time, fire led our ancestors into the circle. It made sense to put the fire in the center and to gather around it. A circle...

Reflective Practice and Goal Setting Part of my growth process is engaging in a reflective practice on a regular basis (Clegg, 2000;...

Savoir, Savoir Faire, Savoir Être If you want to improve yourself, surround yourself with people who have the savoir (knowledge), savoir...

Small Steps, Taken Often To begin a gathering with a land acknowledgement is to begin in a good way. Land acknowledgements honour the...

I spent the summer of 2002 in Granada, in the southern region of Spain called Andalucía. While there, I visited the Alhambra, a medieval...

5 possibilities for settler academic action As a white, settler-Canadian, of Irish and Scottish ancestry, I do not have the authority or...

Emergency & Emergence Remember when nearly everyone stayed home in isolated bubbles? Of course, you remember. There was talk about how...

Welcome Challenges, obstacles, and losses in life can slow me down, and the big ones tend to stop me in my tracks. Like most human...