In 2017, shortly after my eldest left home for university, I listened to a podcast featuring the founder of a tree planting organization… — In 2017, shortly after my eldest left home for university, I listened to a podcast featuring the founder of a tree planting organization. She was sobbing, and I mean — sobbing — about the destruction of our world. She said she couldn’t understand why we weren’t all on our knees…

For Hosam El-Din Ibrahim (1937–2020) — I grew up in a German Apotheke on Wye Road in Sherwood Park, Alberta. I ran underfoot while my parents made busy. My father was the pharmacist, not German, but Egyptian. …

I had that dream again. — I had that dream again. The authorities are coming. The gig is up. I buried a body, forgot about it and am about to get caught. I’m in deep fucking trouble. I stand in my front yard. The location sometimes changes, but here and now, the bones are buried in the boulevard — on city…

A Story of Forgetting — Great-great-grandmothers, I am writing to tell you I made it. You made it. We survived. Imagine that your Egyptian great-grandson met your German great-granddaughter. They had a couple of kids and immigrated to — wait for it — Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. …

Before I watched Planet of the Humans, I read scathing reviews from people I know and respect who absolutely trashed the movie. The… — Before I watched Planet of the Humans, I read scathing reviews from people I know and respect who absolutely trashed the movie. …

“From the Great Above she opened her ear to the Great Below. From the Great Above the goddess opened her ear to the Great Below. From the… — “From the Great Above she opened her ear to the Great Below. From the Great Above the goddess opened her ear to the Great Below. From the Great Above Inanna opened her ear to the Great Below.” About 5000 years ago in Sumeria, more stories were told about Inanna, the…