Archive - NOWHERE FAST

questions 4 yr dad: a poem

alt. title: let's be poets, not bankers

May 19, 2023 •

March 2023

Learning opportunity: Unfinished novel

First chapter from my first draft of a novel I abandoned in 2016. Let's take another look.

Mar 15, 2023 •

February 2023

Getting better in Vancouver: Part 1

A first-person account of navigating substance use services in Vancouver

Feb 8, 2023 •

January 2023

Mind the gaps: Woman dies in ER

A Nova Scotia woman died in her local ER on Dec. 31. And #WTH isn't surprised.

Jan 11, 2023 •

December 2022

To do or do nothing: How to care for loved ones who use drugs

An excerpt from my other newsletter, WHERE'S THE HARM (WTH), which focusses on portrayals of drug use on TV, in movies and in the news.

Dec 14, 2022 •

September 2022

Gain & Loss: From “going out” to assembly line

I have been, for most of my (adult) life, a “medium-sized” (and tall) person. And yet, like a tightrope walker on a knife’s edge, I always felt a step…

Sep 18, 2022 •

May 2021

This might hurt

You asked for it. All the blood & glory of this past year, plunging eyes-first into the inky black unknown. What stones will we overturn; what parasites…

May 18, 2021 •

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