Shannon Linton

“Gather round you all
the things that you love, name
their names, prepare
to lose them.”

from Song in a Year of Catastrophe by Wendell Berry

Celebrated American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic and farmer Wendell Berry has…

Folks, you may not believe me when I tell you this, but Cobourg has a street artist!

One day last week I noticed something graphic and colourful out of the corner of my eye as I was driving. It was…

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Yesterday I received a form email from Mayor Olivia Chow of Toronto, which started with these lines:

“Over the past months, tens of thousands of residents and community leaders spoke out about what…

Now I am changing, becoming something else
A creature of longing, tending only to myself

Perfume and Milk
Florence & the Machine

I have spent several hours over the past couple days writing what I can only describe as something…

This week, the final episode of Make Like a Mother is out, featuring my conversation with Trish Dryden and Janita Wiersma - two people I could listen to talk for days. We had this chat live in front of an…

I had all my usual intentions to sit down and write today, and alas, it is 9:20pm and my best laid plans and I are sitting here giving each other the side-eye. Summer has arrived at my house this week…