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London Sightseeing on a Shoestring
Chim chim che-ree! After a Christmas spent pleasantly in Ontario, TC and I are in London for a few days, ringing in the new year and toasting my big sister and her soon-to-be husband. While I must...
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Kindness (My New Year’s Resolution)
I have noticed a hardness. I have noticed a hardness in the way I speak about people, and the way I think about them. I have noticed that while in many ways I am accepting, or at least tolerant, of...
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Dispatches from the Rehearsal Hall: Nordost
This spring I have the privilege of acting as production dramaturg for the play Nordost, by German playwright Torsten Buchsteiner (translated by David Tushingham). The director, Aliya Griffin, and I...
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Marcus Aurelius Knows What’s Up
After making a new year’s resolution to be kinder (and a more personal one about worrying less), Marcus Aurelius’ collected Meditations could not have come up in my liberal studies curriculum at a...
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Work Less, Contribute More
[Just to preface: I really love my job–that is, the work I do for money. I love it because I like my co-workers, I like what I do, and incredibly importantly, I love that I work 26 hours a week, have...
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Dispatches from the Rehearsal Hall: Nordost 2
The online ticketing page is up, the press release has been sent out, and the Troika Collective continues rehearsing for our upcoming production of Torsten Buchsteiner’s Nordost (translated by David...
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Nifty’s “F*ck It” List 2015
Fancy bucket! At the beginning of this year, I made being kind my New Year’s Resolution. In an external sense, this has not changed much about my day-to-day life or my day-to-day actions. From the...
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Women in Canada can wear what they want (and that includes niqabs)
(Hopefully) soon-to-be Canadian citizen Zunera Ishaq has recently won a court battle allowing her to wear her niqab (a veil, worn by some Muslim women, that covers most of the face) during her public...
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Please Stand By – Nifty Going Biweekly
The sad day has finally arrived–the day on which I finally admit to myself, and confess to you, my much-appreciated readers, that weekly blog posts are no longer sustainable. Between work, my masters...
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The Troika Collective presents “Nordost” (March 4 – 7)
Opening night is finally here. We spent our tech weekend and dress rehearsals doing what we normally do on tech weekend and dress rehearsals–doing everything we can to make a good show great. We often...
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