Olga Ponichtera

Communications Professor, GBC & Humber College; reader, travel addict, runner, city cyclist, coffee enthusiast, dog lover, creative scribbler. Views are my own.

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

Read two books, one by Rachel Cusk, another by Joan Didon this weekend. Here is a coincidence. https://t.co/a8Tg1dG2Gj
#LiteraryCoincidence
#WomenWriters
#Motherhood

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

My students @Humber are reading "Black Men in Public Space" today. The timing is accidental, but my, am I glad! Congratulations to an imortant, fierce voice @BrentNYT

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

Loved Edugyan's "Halfblood Blues" and now can't wait to read "Washington Black." I ordered it at my public library (my hold position is #1546)! 😆
#Congrats #EsiEdugyan #Reading

[Scotiabank @scotiabank]

Congratulations once more to Esi Edugyan on being named the winner of the Scotiabank @GillerPrize on its 25th Anniversary. Get to know Esi a little better and hear her thoughts on the central theme of her novel, Washington Black. #ScotiaLovesBooks #GillerPrize25

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

Please help find my father and share. #MissingPerson

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

It's all a gig economy raining down on us. I am sick of the rain. #OnEducation #JobEquity

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

#ICYMI According to a report released this week, more than half of all jobs offered by Canadian universities in the 2016-2017 academic year were on contract. About 80 per cent of them were part-time.

https://t.co/8lI8K8FSk4

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

A good quote for all of us, adults and youth alike, to remember daily.

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

Marking on the grass. #HumberLakeshore #OctoberSunshine

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

@sarikarr Funny you should ask, S. I was thinking of reviving it but life took over. Maybe will post it this week :-)

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

I am all for late bloomers!
#EmergingWriters

[Anita Chong @AnitaChong9]

Attn: #EmergingWriters in Nova Scotia! You have until Oct 19 to apply to the Alistair MacLeod Mentorship Program. MacLeod published his 1st collection at 40 and his 1st novel at 63, so it’s never too late to be an emerging writer. #DiverseCanLit #CanLit

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

Can't wait for the new season. Gets me crying every time. #ThisIsUs

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Here's a helpful guide to which episode of #ThisIsUs is best for the exact type of crying situation you might be seeking https://t.co/VylIyDqU70

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

Running the Terry Fox tomorrow at High Park. This was with some of my students last year. Anyone else in? #CancerResearch #TerryFox

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

And so, once there was a task force...
#PrecariousWork
#OntarioColleges

[OPSEU Local 556 @OPSEU556]

Thomas: Ford is taking Ontario colleges back to the dark ages | OPSEU https://t.co/6mscBAncWJ

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

Yes! I do think of all the victims of wars whose trauma returns with those jets overhead. Fort York also recently unveiled a monument to Canadian soldiers who served in Afghanistan. It's a tank! Less militaristic and literal symbol could honour our soldiers. @fortyork

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

"As I listen to the screams of planes on their way to the Canadian International Air Show, I can hear the screams of the human beings whose lives and lands will be destroyed and torn apart by the weapons these planes drop," one Star reader writes. https://t.co/pMK96OyRvX

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

Just finished reading Zadie Smith's essays, "Feel Free." Well-written, vivid, smart, and atypical. It read like eating dessert... she leaves you wanting more. #DelightfulBooks #ZadieSmith #LiteraryEssays
https://t.co/RXhFKtMcGb

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

On the list.

[Munro's Books @MunrosBooks]

Clear your schedules! Esi Edugyan's @ManBookerPrize long listed #WashingtonBlack is on the shelves today. https://t.co/Fknm7jnlK0

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

Writers and Twitter against agism! Yes, yes, yes! Creativity and wisdom or both live on past middle age. 🤓😀

[Allison K Williams @GuerillaMemoir]

Toni Morrison: 40
Mark Twain: 41
Marcel Proust: 43
Henry Miller: 44
JRR Tolkien: 45
Raymond Chandler: 51
Richard Adams: 52
Annie Proulx: 57
Laura Ingalls Wilder: 65
Frank McCourt: 66
Harriett Doerr: 74
Harry Bernstein: 96
No, you’re not too old to publish your first book.

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

Saw this sculpture on my evening run today! @HarbourfrontCentre Beautiful work by #SeanMartindale. Ai Wei Wei's studio was demolished earlier this month in Beijing. https://t.co/Ck8ToVZuhy

[Chief Lady Bird 🦅 ᐅᑮᒪᑫᐧᐱᓀᐢ @chiefladybird]

Today I painted this mural with my sister @moniqueaura at Beverly and D’Arcy downtown Toronto near @agotoronto and @OCAD.
A Tribute to Talequah and her baby calf.

Please read the following thread ❤️

[Olga Ponichtera @OPonichtera]

I just had to repost this. It's priceless! Dance to that college frosh!