As the Home Issue draws near its close, Drew Gough revisits the time he spent living abroad and argues that once you leave, you're always gone. He calls this modern, privileged affliction the nomad's curse.
How to stay home and...
posted by Bradley Prouse
The Home Issue continues with an important lesson: home can be a vacation, too. Bradley Prouse tells us all about what a few days of self-enforced idleness can bring. You know, stuff like a wine rack and an answer to the question "If we’re all good and want to be productive, why are people shitty and lazy?"
Home is more than an...
posted by Allison Whalen
The Home Issue rolls along with Allison Whalen's exploration of home through the lens of family, partners, places, and weird 80s toys.
Constructions of identity in home constructions
posted by Jacklyn Guay
The Home Issue continues with TOL first-timer Jacklyn Guay's look into the stuff that makes up home. She explains how our concept of self is something precious, and the dangers of allowing it to defined by the things we have. Or don't have.
The very loudest sto...
posted by David Moscrop
The Home Issue continues with David Moscrop's look at home as something born of moments of alienation, as a fleeting thing that we can never go back to. As the impossible attempt to return from the land of the young.
Home is where my stuff is
posted by Katherine Whalen
To kick off the Home Issue, Katherine Whalen tells us what it means to stuff everything that's important to you into some vinyl bags before trekking to the opposite side of the earth.
On entering adulthoo...
posted by Drew Gough
The summer after my sister left the hospital, for the first time in years, everyone was at the lake; my aunts and uncles and cousins from across the continent found an unlikely pocket of time to be together. Truths began to emerge, told as they always are in our family as anecdotes. The time everyone quit their jobs for a summer and rented a cottage, living from unemployment cheque to unemployment cheque while chasing off renegade dogs, waterskiing, and wearing tracks into the Monopoly board.
Timing
posted by David Moscrop
Timing isn’t a thing. It’s not fate or kismet or whatever you may call it. There’s no one pulling the strings behind a curtain or starting and stopping a chronograph. When timing goes well, the universe isn’t actually conspiring in your favour, just as when timing goes poorly it isn’t plotting against you.
What ships are for
posted by David Moscrop
What might an alternative democratic order look like? There are a myriad of options and potential configurations for an order that starts to balance the scales between our liberal and democratic capacities and outlets.
Notes on taxation in...
posted by Jeff Beemer
Where did this idea that the taxation of corporations drives away investment come from? Canadian political values have seemed to be socially progressive over the last several decades. This has made me to wonder whether the American dream of the pursuit of happiness has begun to affect us.