From Burnout to Breakthrough

“Who else lived two completely different years in 2022?” I recently read a tweet to this effect, and it’s definitely true for me. I started out 2022 with the word “breakthrough,” though I didn’t know what it would mean. For the first half of 2022 I felt a more accurate word would have been “stuck.” […]

How Long Must I Wait?

Today is the first day of the season of Advent, the season of waiting, anticipating, preparing, and longing. As a child, the main understanding I had of advent was the advent calendar, where we opened one door each day to get a chocolate. It was an exciting and delicious tradition, even if it provided a […]

Between Seasons

I took these two photos today: Notice anything? The first one is clearly autumn. The second one is trying to be winter. The lights are there, there’s a bit of ice on the water, but the snow’s a little late. The second photo is Whistler Village, which in the winter — on opening day of […]

Socially Broken

It’s not Covid’s fault, although that certainly didn’t help. I used to be a social planner, a community builder. I would round up my friends to go on adventures, host gatherings organized around board games or wine and cheese and invite everyone I knew, even if they didn’t know each other. There were friendships that […]

Choose Laughter

I went to a funeral today. My great uncle passed away a few days ago and the family gathered to remember him and celebrate his life. I didn’t know him very well, or have very many memories of him, but as I was getting ready to leave for the service reflecting on just that, a […]

A new chapter

I am beyond excited to be able to write this title. I have been in a state of perpetual transition, waiting, “in-between-ness” and “stuck-ness” for what feels like forever, as you’ll know if you’ve followed this blog for awhile, had a conversation with me in the last 3 years, or even if you just glance […]

Square fifty seven

Lately I’ve been tormented by the feeling I’ve been set back to “square one.” By the pandemic. By divorce. By the increasingly impossible cost of living in my city. By the social consequences of prolonged “bubble” restrictions. Square one… the words haunt me, and send me spinning into a downward spiral. Maybe if it was […]

The Longest Night

Tonight is winter solstice: the longest night of the year. It certainly feels like it. In fact, it feels like we’ve been living in the longest night for awhile now. Waiting, in the darkness, for the light to come. Today, in my part of the world, we were told, yet again, of more restrictions. Just […]

Dead Reckoning

“So how’s the writing going?” An innocent question asked out of genuine care and interest pierces my heart. As any writer probably knows, any writer who hasn’t been writing, because… because. This simple question shines an unwelcome light into the darkest recesses of my cringing soul, through the secret back entrance that was foolishly left […]

Life Block

We’ve all heard of Writer’s Block. Some will tell you it is very real and can be crippling. Others will tell you it’s all in your head. Both of these are probably true. Whether it’s real or all in my head, I think I’ve been struggling for a while with not just Writer’s Block, but […]