Episodes

Hosts Bronwin Parks and Elinor Svoboda take the podcast on location and meet up in present day Calgary (2024).

Host Bronwin Parks and Elinor Svoboda discuss how an encounter with ‘the question box’ in health class changed Bronwin's middle childhood with a discussion about the Alberta health curriculum and homosexuality in 1988.

Hosts Bronwin Parks and Elinor Svoboda explore how the social constructs of the classroom changed in grade four. They reflect on how they both felt less accepted within social circles with friends that were boys, despite identifying as “tomboys”. The hosts welcome Elinor’s eight-year-old son for some discussion, classmates, and clinical psychologist Dr. Kate Thomson helps them dig into the question “Where Do I Belong” in relation to middle childhood. Bronwin and Elinor are left to wonder: Did an...

Hosts Bronwin Parks and Elinor Svoboda explore the impact that the Calgary 1988 Olympic winter games had on their group of friends with classmates and special guest, historian Kevin Allen.

Get to know hosts Bronwin Parks and Elinor Svoboda as they contemplate why they weren't friends in grade school while they struggled to figure themselves