- Sep 8, 2021
- Jul 16, 2021
- Jul 16, 2021
- Feb 19, 2021
- Dec 9, 2020
The long road to publication
I’ve come to realize I’m not a prolific writer. I publish so little that it still gives me a thrill when I see my name in a publication....
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loriannlivingston
- Jul 16, 2021
- 4 min
Disrupting the solar industry
Refactoring is a software term. I’ve talked about it before in the context of the workplace. It means to take an existing section of...
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loriannlivingston
- Jul 16, 2021
- 1 min
10 flags, or how I was nearly scammed
I have published my first article on Medium. You can follow me there (and here. And on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram . . .). I actually...
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loriannlivingston
- Feb 19, 2021
- 6 min
Refactoring the workplace
How a software principle became a way to do business A Grade 9 typing class was the most important course of Leon Kehl’s life. Clocking...
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loriannlivingston
- Dec 9, 2020
- 1 min
Stronger together
Waterloo Mennonite Homes, MennoHomes merge to strengthen response to affordable homes. A short article about the merger between...
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loriannlivingston
- Apr 23, 2019
- 1 min
This is your brain on shrubs: How being outside and among trees improves children’s mental health
One thing I'm appreciating about freelance writing is that sometimes it takes a very long time for a story to come together. This one...
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loriannlivingston
- Mar 29, 2019
- 4 min
An interview with the late John O'Donohue
In 1999, when this was first published, one book, entitled Anam Cara, sat at the top of the Irish Times Bestseller List for 20 months....
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loriannlivingston
- Feb 11, 2019
- 1 min
Former sex-trafficking victim says Canadian parents need to know warning signs
I've been volunteering on a community engagement committee to raise awareness about human sex trafficking in Waterloo Region. The...
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loriannlivingston
- Jan 16, 2019
- 1 min
I watched my church become a pile of rubble and it gave me hope.
I know a lot of people watched the slow demolition of the Trinity United Church building on Frederick Street in Kitchener, as I did....
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loriannlivingston
- Dec 3, 2018
- 5 min
Kiss and McTell
One song made and nearly broke Ralph McTell. When he wrote Streets of London at the age of 23, he had no idea how much he would live in...
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loriannlivingston
- Nov 20, 2018
- 1 min
Bad fences make better neighbours
That's the title of a personal essay I submitted to the Globe and Mail, and what do you know? They liked it. You can read the full essay...
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loriannlivingston
- Oct 15, 2018
- 5 min
Scripts, stories and scoops
Printed in the Irish World in September 1999. Joe O'Connor's latest play, True Believers, played the Tricycle Theatre in London, UK. L.A....
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loriannlivingston
- Oct 9, 2018
- 4 min
Chiefly Moloney
Head Chieftain Paddy Moloney shows no signs of slowing up after decades in the music business. L.A. Livingston met the 61-year-old...
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loriannlivingston
- Oct 1, 2018
- 3 min
Sixpence quite a bit richer
First printed in the Irish World in September 1999. I spoke with Sixpence None the Richer's lead singer, Leigh Nash, about their...
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