Seeing Sicily: A Circular Meditation on Light, Myth, and Memory
A long-held dream was finally coming to fruition, to follow the edge of Sicily, to trace…
The Lion of Zoppas
On the morning of September 2, 1965, four young Italian cyclists lined up in Lasarte, a…
Is the Liver a Company? (An Architect’s Perspective)
We all, depending on our belief system, ask ourselves the fundamental questions about our…
I Was a Teenage Fashion Designer
My maternal grandmother, Nonna Nancy, was an Italian immigrant and an intuitive,…
Guy Rodgers’ New Book Chooses Not to Forget
What We Choose to Forget (2026) documents the third leg of a personal journey of…
About Immigrants and Education in Quebec: Another Conversation with Guy Rex Rodgers
Guy Rex Rodgers is the writer and director of a series of documentary films that explore…
Reflections on Dying Times by Darlene Madott
Dying Times (Exile Editions, 2021) and its recent Italian language iteration, Il…
Angel of God
Death visited our family and enveloped us in a tight embrace of its dark cloak on a…
Two Days with a Pig
I was not hog-wild on the idea. So before heading off on our trip to Italy last January,…
Remembering the Italian-Canadian Women of the Internment
In June 1940, at the outbreak of World War II, Italy declared war on Great Britain. At…