Columnists
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December 22, 2023Book Therapy: Favourites From My Favourites
By Stacey May Fowles“My eclectic reading habits often lead me through various genres, from memoirs and horror novels to young adult fiction and anything else that I happen to grab. However, I have a particular fondness ...
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October 24, 2023Book Therapy: My Body is Distant
By Stacey May Fowles“(Y)ou can be an elf, a monster, a kind of person you can’t be in Real Life. You can get outside of your head and escape.”- Paige Maylott, My Body is Distant Escape as a therapeutic avenue is ...
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August 10, 2023Book Therapy: Late-Summer Reading
By Stacey May FowlesWe’ve now reached the point in the summer where my inner voice starts screaming “but there’s not enough time!” at full volume. With my genuine distaste for winter weather, summer is a precious ...
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June 28, 2023Book Therapy: Big Shadow
By Stacey May Fowles“It suddenly felt pointless—no, more damning than that: it was embarrassing—to have devoted the day to him, travelling to the countrystead just to find his books, then imagining myself as the next ...
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May 12, 2023Book Therapy: Mother’s Day Edition
By Stacey May FowlesBeyond the saccharine sentiments, store-bought flowers, and (adorable but messy) kid-crafted breakfasts in bed, Mother’s Day can be an extremely fraught if not painful holiday for many. I know I spent ...
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April 26, 2023Book Therapy: The Remembering Stone
By Stacey May Fowles“But Alice didn’t want the perfect stone to sink to the bottom like all the others, so she put it in her pocket.”-Carey Sookocheff, The Remembering StoneFor my family, last year was defined by loss. ...
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February 27, 2023Book Therapy: Workday Warrior
By Stacey May Fowles“Your work likely presents you with one challenge after another. Your personal life, no doubt, does the same. All are sources of stress. And then there are other big-picture stressors—the pandemic, ...
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December 29, 2022Book Therapy: Favourites From My Favourites
By Stacey May Fowles“It was the book I was always meant to read. It spoke directly to me, braiding so many currents of my own life—messy motherhood, literary research, poetry—into a rich river of language and rhythm ...
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November 30, 2022Book Therapy: Cyclettes
By Stacey May Fowles“If I had paused for too long to reflect on whether I was making the ‘right’ choices to optimize satisfaction, I might have become paralyzed in a never doing. Instead I sped towards my hypothetical ...
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October 18, 2022Book Therapy: Tear
By Stacey May Fowles“The room was dark around her. She heard a sound of shuffling, of shifting, as of limbs being rearranged. Or maybe it was the sound of leaves shuffling, shifting at the tops of trees. Hadn’t she just ...