It took only a few weeks for me to admit to myself that my watercolour painting wouldn’t get much better unless I did something about my complete and utter lack of drawing skills. No matter how many painting workshops and courses I take, I’ll need Read More …
I’d planned to write a post without any mention of the on-going pandemic, but obviously that’s not going to happen. It has been such a prominent feature of our lives for over a year now, with restrictions still in place across many areas of the Read More …
What’s so rare that the awareness day for it falls on Leap Day, once every four years? That’s the story of international Rare Disease Day, launched back in 2008 to “build a global awareness campaign to help bring rare diseases to the spotlight.” (1) Leap Read More …
It’s been almost two months since the start of the year, and here in Montréal the snow is still thick on the ground. It feels a long way from spring, but today the temperature was above the freezing point for a couple of hours; a Read More …
Art and bioethics might seem like an odd combination of topics to write about, but it’ll make sense – I promise! I took advantage today of a (temporary?) easing of pandemic restrictions here in Montreal, to go into a bookshop for the first time in Read More …
At this time last year, I was looking forward to a whole series of creative courses and workshops that would have just been getting underway. I’d signed up for a variety of these, being offered either for free or at very reasonable prices through local Read More …
