https://www.sharacooper.ca/writing-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-22 https://www.sharacooper.ca/writing-1/opinion-the-family-history-i-never-knew-how-being-adopted-hid-a-life-saving-clue monthly 0.5 2026-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f5fc48b8d371114f73ac6c/1bd9774f-4d2b-431c-95ea-e68633cff897/Toronto+Star+adoption+.png Writing - Opinion | The family history I never knew: How being adopted hid a life-saving clue - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sharacooper.ca/writing-1/opinion-if-albertans-want-their-voices-to-count-in-ottawa-the-path-forward-is-not-separation-its-electoral-reform monthly 0.5 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f5fc48b8d371114f73ac6c/8d646872-a7b9-4fc8-9c7c-8eb8d51dd60d/danielle+smith.jpg Writing - Opinion | If Albertans want their voices to count in Ottawa, the path forward is not separation, it’s electoral reform - Make it stand out Alberta Premier Danielle Smith makes an announcement in Edmonton, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS https://www.sharacooper.ca/writing-1/opinion-my-parents-werent-ashamed-they-were-worried-how-getting-diagnosed-with-adhd-as-an-adult-brought-me-and-my-squirrelly-brain-peace-of-mind monthly 0.5 2025-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f5fc48b8d371114f73ac6c/dec8df62-65dd-4473-a558-6daca725f5bd/Shara+in+Halifax.jpg Writing - Opinion | ‘My parents weren’t ashamed, they were worried.’ How getting diagnosed with ADHD as an adult brought me and my squirrelly brain peace of mind The author in Halifax for her MFA residency in 2024. https://www.sharacooper.ca/writing-1/thegreen monthly 0.5 2025-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f5fc48b8d371114f73ac6c/1678825923032-0KWK5MQWY3M0I1PVEAMX/andrey--2MYgjmbPfk-unsplash.jpg Writing - The Green - The Green I’m running through the woods, lost in the forest around me. My sister is counting, “Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten — ready or not — Here. I. Come!” Her footsteps are crashing, but she’s not close enough to see me. I press myself down onto the ground, flattening the previously untouched grass around me. It’s tall and thick enough to enclose me back into its cocoon. Cautiously, I roll onto my side and then lower to my back. She’s still crashing around, but the noise is moving away from me. The wind is flickering the poplar leaves above, but the brush is too dense and nothing moves on the ground. Bugs and twigs and broken leaves are in my hair, but I don’t notice. A chickadee lets out its two-tone whistle. After a pause, it gets a reply. She’s going the wrong way. I can’t hear her anymore. Most likely she’s gone too far, we are supposed to stay on our side of the Green, otherwise we can’t hear Mom when she calls. We don’t say it out loud, but this doesn’t matter. I’ll hear her and then get my sister. Or the other way around. Unless, of course, we are mad at each other. In that case, one will abandon the other to our mother’s wrath for straying too far. Read more here https://www.sharacooper.ca/writing-1/gramma-cookies-midnight-tv-and-the-case-of-the-missing-crabapples monthly 0.5 2025-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f5fc48b8d371114f73ac6c/fe323981-3a23-4a97-8e49-0ea8490a3c71/Gramma%2BGrampa%2Band%2BShara.jpg Writing - Gramma Cookies, Midnight TV, and the Case of the Missing Crabapples The author, Shara Cooper with Ann and Wayne Kangas around 1986. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f5fc48b8d371114f73ac6c/edd2aaf3-42aa-42f2-9043-cd6351a4361c/Shara%2BLyndsay%2BGramma%2BGrampa.jpg Writing - Gramma Cookies, Midnight TV, and the Case of the Missing Crabapples Shara Cooper, with her sister Lyndsay and grandparents, Wayne and Ann Kangas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f5fc48b8d371114f73ac6c/d7a6ab9d-3473-45bc-bfb1-d961139e2394/Shara%2BGramma%2BLyndsay.jpg Writing - Gramma Cookies, Midnight TV, and the Case of the Missing Crabapples Shara and Lyndsay Cooper with Gramma—Anne Kangas—at the big cougar outside Brigham Young University. https://www.sharacooper.ca/writing-1/thewitchinghour monthly 0.5 2025-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f5fc48b8d371114f73ac6c/1678820338263-O3RS82E0Z3EQD780G2WT/RiPPLE+2021.jpeg Writing - The Witching Hour - The Witching Hour “Take the next left.” The old woman nodded nearly imperceptibly at the turn that would take them off the wide boulevard and down a dimly lit side street. The cabbie glanced at her in the mirror and then at the meter. What did he care, the old woman wondered. It’s not like he was getting better fares at this hour. The old taxi glided like a brick on oil across four empty lanes of traffic and waited at the turn signal. In the backseat the old woman clutched her teal, leather purse on her lap, nails digging into the side. She gazed out the driver’s side window, watching as the housing complexes grew rattier. At one point this area had been new and full of anticipation for new beginnings. That was before even her time. She struggled to imagine what it had been like when it buzzed with fresh life. Buildings like these that were squeezed so tightly together probably appealed to young families, happy they could dabble in home ownership. Now they stood crumbling, unfit for the average person, but functional enough to house the unwanted, the mentally ill, the addicted. https://www.sharacooper.ca/writing-1/ruckle-residents-braves-house-fire-to-save-his-buddies monthly 0.5 2025-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f5fc48b8d371114f73ac6c/921ac707-05e5-4a72-9fb8-a371b7261a17/044.jpg Writing - Ruckle residents braves house fire to save his buddies - Make it stand out House fire in Ruckle destroys family home. 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The cabbie glanced at her in the mirror and then at the meter. What did he care, the old woman wondered. It’s not like he was getting better fares at this hour. The old taxi glided like a brick on oil across four empty lanes of traffic and waited at the turn signal. In the backseat the old woman clutched her teal, leather purse on her lap, nails digging into the side. She gazed out the driver’s side window, watching as the housing complexes grew rattier. At one point this area had been new and full of anticipation for new beginnings. That was before even her time. She struggled to imagine what it had been like when it buzzed with fresh life. Buildings like these that were squeezed so tightly together probably appealed to young families, happy they could dabble in home ownership. Now they stood crumbling, unfit for the average person, but functional enough to house the unwanted, the mentally ill, the addicted. https://www.sharacooper.ca/writing-1/japanesequattytoilet monthly 0.5 2025-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f5fc48b8d371114f73ac6c/b03fc7cb-0b97-4ec9-90f2-96cc73c51ca2/Japanese+squatty+toilet.jpg Writing - The Japanese Squatty Toilet - The Japanese Squatty Toilet This was originally written in 2003, after I spent over a year in Japan. My apologies if the information is outdated or culturally insensitive. I was in my early 20s at the time and this piece is meant to be light hearted and warm. Japan holds a special place in my heart. Toilets were not the first thing that came to my mind when I planned my trip to Japan. But I would soon learn that broadening my horizons would include re-learning how to pee. In Tokyo the pressing issue is so complex that how-to posters are posted at the airport to instruct confused tourists and other uninitiated. More than one terrified traveller has attempted avoidance instead of voiding. 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