by Katrina Collier | Feb 21, 2025 | What If It's Not
Stated in black and white Yet, the English language is full of nuances. What is stated can have shades of meaning and can easily be taken out of context. Take Jimmy Fallon’s Superbowl joke, which has Canadians on Threads up in arms because they feel their...
by Katrina Collier | Feb 7, 2025 | What If It's Not
What if our apathy is self-sacrifice? What if we can no longer be impassive or indifferent? In conversation this week with friends, we pondered the firehose of mis- and disinformation spewing forth globally and were curious about what is being snuck through while we...
by Katrina Collier | Jan 24, 2025 | What If It's Not
Quietly quixotic My father was born in 1929 and as a teenager in Australia vividly remembered World War 2. My father was Jewish—he passed in 2022—and, due to his German-sounding surname, was heavily persecuted during the war. Though he’d state it was for other...
by Katrina Collier | Jan 10, 2025 | What If It's Not
What if there isn’t an answer? What happens when you haven’t got an answer or, worse, say the wrong thing? It’s awkward. That feeling of damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Or the dry mouth that comes with an empty head of replies....
by Katrina Collier | Dec 27, 2024 | What If It's Not
People-pleasing: please stop it! Publishing this between Christmas and New Year may be the silliest thing to do during the festive season but this wanted to be out of my body and left in 2024. If I could get people to stop one thing, it would be people-pleasing!...
by Katrina Collier | Dec 13, 2024 | What If It's Not
Do you know if it’s true? Yesterday I saw a post from The Guardian stating that ‘the Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access a single market.’ Hallelujah, I thought as I considered its impact on people and...
