Angie Littlefield is an author, curator, educator, and editor. She has written three books about Canadian artist Tom Thomson, the most recent of which is Tom Thomson’s Fine Kettle of Friends. Her eclectic interests include curating art exhibits in Canada and Germany and working with children from Nunavut and Tristan da Cunha to produce their books. Her other books include Ilse Salberg: Weimar Photographer, Angelika Hoerle: Comet of Cologne Dadaists, and The Art of Dissent: Willy Fick. She co-created www.readingandremembrance.ca, a website with lesson packages for Ontario educators. Angie lives in Toronto, Canada.
On Dust, Germs, and Toilet Plumes by Angie Littlefield I really, really don’t like germs, so you can imagine how I am dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic—not well! It all started with a petri dish. In grade eight the teacher gave us a petri dish to label with our names and fill with a substance Read more
Hacked, Tracked, and Blinkered by Angie Littlefield A flurry of e-mails alerted me. Individuals I didn’t know had joined something called a “household” on a loyalty card I have for a drugstore chain. I quickly went to my local store where the kind cosmetics lady looked up my receipts from December to see if I Read more
Helen of Troy’s Tears in My Garden by Angie Littlefield I saw a tall weed with a bright-yellow flower in a sumpy ditch when I was driving around a few years back. I stopped to see if I could pull it out, considering its roots might yield from the squidgy soil. Yes! The plant gave Read more
Incontinence Close to Home by Angie Littlefield I have been out on daily walks since my gym shut down due to COVID-19. Fortunately, I live in a suburban area near Lake Ontario where the streets are wide and currently deserted and where there is a beautiful waterfront trail. There are lovely hour-long routes to walk Read more
Six Degrees of Separation from Sigmund Freud by Angie Littlefield We reach a certain age when the idea of having only six degrees of separation from a famous historical person seems possible. It’s fun to try to connect with history, but before you try, let’s make the game a little harder: Every link needs to Read more
Indie Author Day: Grow Your Creative Community By Angie Littlefield This year’s Indie Author Day will be held on Saturday, October 12. Because that day is also Canadian Thanksgiving, my local library in Pickering, Ontario, will host its event a week earlier, on Oct 5. Graphic designer, photographer, and webmistress Mary Cook and I are the Read more
My Publisher is an Avatar for the MMA (Pennsylvania Roadtrip) by Angie Littlefield Lucy Black and I hit the road from Toronto to Pennsylvania for the first ever Silver Sage Summit in Hellertown. Just minutes in, selfie-stamped, we shared our concerns about the trip in the safety-bubble of my car. The fear of being made Read more
Foolish Things We Did for Love by Angie Littlefield I first spotted the rock through an opening in the shrouding forest. It rose up 30 feet from the river about a mile above Kakabeka Falls. I could see people diving from the top of the rock into the river. They swam in a broad arc towards Read more
My Blender Speaks by Angie Littlefield At high noon on her 90th birthday my great-aunt Dora died. She was sitting in an armchair in the lobby of her nursing home staring at the face of a large wall clock that had just chimed twelve times. She, whose growth became stunted after she rolled off a table Read more
My Great-Grandmother Has No Grave, But She’s in Houston by Angie Littlefield I don’t know how to tell Rosalba I am not able to help her get a copy of her transcript from Concordia University in Montreal. I’m on the phone in Toronto talking with her in Houston. Rosalba is my late mother’s cousin. In Read more
