Health & lifestyle
These samples of my published magazine writing show the range of topics I’ve covered over the decades in Health and Lifestyle. Periodically, I add new material and more from my archives. Stay tuned.
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Client’s new novel on human trafficking available on Amazon
I’m pleased to announce that Jane in Plain Sight, a poignant debut novel by a recent client, Texas psychiatrist Olga Tolscik, is now available on Amazon. I copy-edited this engaging book, which reveals how easily and publicly a sex trafficker can target and deceive a vulnerable young woman in New York City. Yet, human trafficking…
Nail polish contains dangerous chemicals
“If a woman things her dazzling nail polish looks like dynamite, she’s not far from the truth: it contains a potentially harmful chemical used to make explosives. . .” That’s how my feature “Spiked!” begins in the April 2003 issue of Canada’s national Alive magazine. The article not only addresses the ingredients of most nail polishes, including toxic…
A west-coast wedding: love in a backyard labyrinth
I share the tale of my wedding in a friend’s outdoor labyrinth, a replica of the medieval design in Chartres Cathedral, France. This feature appeared in two magazines in western Canada in 2006. Click this link West coast wedding (Sunshine Coast LIfe magazine) to read my article, with accompanying photos.
How did the role of women shift in post-war Nicaragua?
Nicaraguan women in the 1990s faced high unemployment, exploitation and discrimination. But thanks to Vancity funding to a grassroots group in this central American nation, women gained job and business training and micro-loans. I wrote about this for Working Dollars, the newsletter for VanCity Savings Credit Union. Click on this Nicaraguan women link to read…
Heather Conn reveals two favourite cards from her SoulCollage deck
The following article, which I wrote, appeared in the Sept. 26, 2016 issue of the global e-newsletter Soul Treasures, published by KaleidoSoul in Massachusetts. Reader Kas Sobey-Knabb responded: “Heather, just wanted to reach out to you after reading your upbeat and lovely piece in Kaleidosoul Soul Songs.Enjoyed it and meeting your 2 Neters [symbolic guides]! Quite colorful…
My online course Writing From Pain to Power begins Feb. 23
I am teaching an 8-week, online creative nonfiction class Writing From Pain to Power in the spring of 2022 through the University of King’s College in Halifax. My students are from across the country, writing about real-life traumas in their lives. Most are hoping to publish a memoir or essays. Using a trauma-informed approach, we…