A Closer Look: Jody Paterson

I'm a communications strategist and writer with a journalism background, a drifter's spirit, and a growing sense of alarm at where this world is going. I am happiest when writing pieces that identify, contextualize and background societal problems big and small in hopes of helping us at least slow our deepening crises.

Friday, December 26, 2025

Sometimes using drugs makes sense

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Gerd Altmann, Pixabay One of my long-time friends has Dissociative Identity Disorder – what they once called multiple personality. Getting t...
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Thursday, December 04, 2025

Half a millenium is long enough to know that what you're doing isn't working

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I went looking for the origins of that phrase "the deserving poor" today. It turns out to be a 426-year-old term dating back to th...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Rising intimate partner violence rates are just one of the many canaries in our coal mine

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Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. We are a long way from done.  The line on the graph looks lik...
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Saturday, November 01, 2025

The cruel, pointless belief that we can address a social crisis with enforcement

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Scrambling to pack up as bylaw gets ready to close in In days gone by, I'd be out talking to people living homeless and hearing mostly a...
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Friday, October 17, 2025

Word volley on the social crisis from the local newspaper, in order

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Wal_172619 Pixabay If words in a newspaper could solve the social crisis on our streets, we'd be on our way with the back-and-forths tha...
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