Editing
Editing is about relationships. The editor has to respect the mandate given by the writer—is she open to only “tweaks” or does she want substantive feedback?—and the writer has to trust the editor. This is so even in a voluntary groups.
I have edited a wide assortment of work for writers with varying gifts and different intentions.
From 2019 to 2023, I served as Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Arbitration and Mediation Journal, an online publication of the ADR Institute of Canada. Past journal issues
From 2015 to 2023, I served as volunteer editor of Spiritus, the periodic newsletter of Christ Church Deer Park Anglican Church in Toronto. Past newsletter issues
As an editorial intern at Colborne Communications in Toronto, I did an early structural edit of Erika Nielsen’s book Sound Mind: My Bipolar Journey from Chaos to Composure (Trigger Publishing, 2019). Now in its second printing, Erika’s book won several awards.
Radio
IDEAS is a CBC Radio One documentary show about contemporary issues. Over the years I have contributed to the following shows:
- The Trouble with Tolerance, a 3-part show, broadcast in 2015 as an “Ideas Classic.” Originally created in 2007, it wrestles with the nature and meaning of tolerance in a diverse society.
- When Families Start Talking, a 2-part show, that looks at the conversations families do and don’t have about money, inheritances, care-giving, death, and other hot-button topics.
- Changing the Workplace that examines what makes organizational change so compelling and why so many deliberate change initiatives fail.
- Dispute Resolution, a show created when alternative dispute resolution was in its infancy. It discusses the ideas behind the techniques and follows the mediation of issues between a chartered bank and one of its customers.