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since March 26, 2020
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Hello fellow isolators! Welcome to a special season-ending bonus episode. It is March 17th today, which makes it one year since a state of public health emergency was declared here in Alberta. That’s right, one year of COVID quarantines, a year with an overarching sense of fear (among other feeling…

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Well That’s Cool podcast! One of the things about this podcast’s origin was I didn’t really know what it was going to become. I started the show as a way to talk with cool people doing cool things during the pandemic. As the fall and winter of 2020 came …
Hello fellow isolators, and welcome to the fifth edition of the Well That’s Cool Book Club! For our February meeting, we had the first poet to make a special guest appearance at the Well That’s Cool Book Club. Jenna Butler is more than just a poet, however, she is also an essayist, professor, and …
Hello fellow isolators, and welcome to the fourth edition of the Well That’s Cool Book Club, and our first meeting of 2021! Things are getting cold here in Edmonton so what better time to curl up with a good book and get reading? Or in this case, to get on Zoom with some friends new and old to talk…
Hello isolators! It’s me, Ben Fast, with another bonus mini episode! I’ve been talking with authors a lot on the podcast recently. In the first episode of the Book Club series I’m running this winter, one of the live studio audience members was herself a writer. Keara Farnan is the author of I Only…
Hello fellow isolators! I hope you are all doing well on this strange Christmas Eve. I know many people are not seeing family or having to change plans to keep everyone safe, as well as dealing with new restrictions in some provinces. As these played out in mid-December, it seemed another perfect t…
Hello fellow isolators! I hope you are all doing well this fall. It is sad and a bit scary to see how the numbers of new infections for this virus we’re all trying to avoid are climbing around the world again, especially here in Alberta where I live and in my home province of BC. So, what better ti…
Vancouver-based young adult fantasy author Rachael Bell-Irving joined the first meeting of the Well That’s Cool Book Club on October 22 for a discussion about writing her first book, discovering the ins and outs of the publishing industry, and developing the characters of a six-book series arc. — H…
Hello isolators. Before we jump in to this episode, I have a quick announcement about a new podcast segment I’m trying out this month. On Thursday October 22, I’m launching the Well That’s Cool book club, a chance for us to get together over Zoom and talk about books and writing and all that fun st…
Hey isolators! I’ve got some cool news for you: I’m starting a book club! I know, even with a pandemic none of us have really worked through our to-be-read piles, but this isn’t your standard book club. Instead of all of us reading the same book and talking about it, I’m going to host some friends …
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