Pieta Woolley

1 week ago | broadview.org | Pieta Woolley

In 1996, Ralph Milton, then president of the B.C. Conference of the United Church, turned to the theme of death for his final speech at the annual meeting. He quoted from a poem by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas whose refrain runs, “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” But Milton didn’t rage against it. Nope. He advised us to just “go gentle” into that good night. In other words, die, church, die. I was 21 at the time, attending the meeting as a youth delegate. The church was my life.

Jul 2, 2024 | broadview.org | Pieta Woolley

Last September, I sat behind a folding table under a clear blue sky, in the parking lot of my kids’ high school in Powell River, B.C. It was Career Day. Because I am the editor of the local magazine, I was there to represent journalism — a field that, wisely, few teens from this longtime logging and mining community pursue. So I had lots of time to watch the giggling, glossy-haired herds. Next to me, geology: an equally dull-looking booth. Excitement was elsewhere.

May 24, 2024 | broadview.org | Pieta Woolley

With her trademark sass, stand-up comic Deborah Kimmett sets up her book’s central tension in the first chapter, “Losing my Religion.” A young Kimmett is drunk and in bed, refusing to get up for mass, when her mother opens her bedroom door to snap, “You can’t stop being Catholic. You were born Catholic. You will die Catholic.”“There it was: the curse,” Kimmett writes in Window Shopping for God: A Comedian’s Search for Meaning.

Mar 5, 2024 | pentictonherald.ca | Pieta Woolley

How often do you bike to school? Reed • I started biking to school during 2020 when there wasn’t a lot of traffic, the Lund highway is notoriously unsafe so I don’t bike from Lund often. A solution I have found is staying with my grandparents in Westview which makes the commute quicker and safer. Ellie • In the winter I don’t bike to school very often, maybe once a month if my friends are going.

Mar 5, 2024 | thespec.com | Pieta Woolley

How often do you bike to school? Reed • I started biking to school during 2020 when there wasn’t a lot of traffic, the Lund highway is notoriously unsafe so I don’t bike from Lund often. A solution I have found is staying with my grandparents in Westview which makes the commute quicker and safer. Already a Subscriber? Sign in Ellie • In the winter I don’t bike to school very often, maybe once a month if my friends are going.