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freelance writer Rosemary Phillips

Feature Articles

Feature Articles by Rosemary Phillips

I write feature articles, by commission or self-initiated, on many subjects, from health, wellness and human potential, to the arts, agriculture, sports and interior design. My focus is on human-interest stories that provide information, touch on emotions and evoke discussion and response.

One of my more recent controversial articles, “The Cost of Cheating Death” was published in the Vancouver Sun on March 10, 2003. It is a fantasy woven with hard core facts and figures about the costs - monetary, physical, emotional and spiritual - when reviving someone who has suffered a major cardiac arrest. This touched many nerves and created all kinds of dialogue. Several caregivers wrote to thank me for writing about a subject “people just don’t talk about.”

Stories posted on this site vary from the eye-opening The Bathroom (about the dilemma of bathroom design, written for Canadian Interiors Magazine in 1977 and still relevant in 2003) through to my more recent performing arts reviews of “Dracula” with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and of Valdy, Canada’s troubadour.

Says Christy Luke:

“Rosemary’s writing comes from the heart. She has an outstanding ability to bring alive the human element and to make me care about the people and things she writes about.”

Says Mihaela Yeung:

“This note is to express how much I enjoyed reading your articles. You gave life to wonderful stories that brought together items of local interest with the warmth and creativity of the human spirit. These articles, as well as your poetry and other writings, fill me with inspiration and a feeling of celebration of the community to which all of us belong.”