Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Historical Curiosity
As I sit down to work on my overly long book proposal this morning, I’ve paused for a moment of procrastination. The coffee hasn’t kicked in yet. This nostalgia post is courtesy of U of T’s Varsity newspaper, where I wrote reviews back in the first half of the 1990s. Advice from one of my…
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Sometimes people leave you / Halfway through the woods
At this time of year, as January gives way to February, I always rest a bit in grief and the recollection of loss. No one makes it through adulthood without having experienced the heaviness of loved ones who left this life. In Stephen Sondheim’s gorgeous “No One Is Alone” from Into the Woods, we have…
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The Chair and Academic Mobbing
Given that the six episodes of the Netflix limited series The Chair, starring the always-amazing (and Canadian-raised) Sandra Oh, were released in 2021, I’ve averaged an episode per calendar year. I finally wrapped up the last episode yesterday, after a very long day occasioned by the administrative details required to plan a community gathering in…
