Wild Places

There are some wild places around here. Sometimes I think there’s a lot less separating what’s real and what’s fantasy than we might believe. Just as mind-body dualism is an oversimplification of what it means to be, “real-fantasy” doesn’t give credit to the complexity of our existence. We have infinite, entire worlds created by creative […]

Colourful

Life didn’t go the way I planned. But it’s certainly turning out more colourful than I ever could have hoped for.

In Between Day

Today was an in-between day. When you travel for awhile and then come back home, it takes a bit of time to adjust. I’m not just talking about jet lag, although there is that. But there’s also climate lag (like when you’ve gone from the warm sunny tropics to cold rainy almost-winter), and people lag […]

Watch Carefully

These words are resonating with me today. I love when someone gives me that space and comfort to be just me. I love just as much, if not more, to witness someone I care about become more their true self, to be the person offering that space and comfort to them. How much better off […]

Letting Go is the Scariest Part

Today I went rock climbing, on a rock climbing wall with an automatic belay, which means there’s not a human holding the rope to bring you down. So you are just supposed to let go. Letting go, I decided, is the scariest part. And it’s so true, isn’t it? Challenge I can do. Climbing to […]

Timeline Folds

Has your timeline ever folded in on itself? Sometimes it happens in dreams, when you’re transported to another place and time but as your current self. Sometimes it happens in real life, when you visit a place you used to be, or meet somebody you used to know, and it’s as though no time has […]

Come to Space with Me

Would you like to come to space with me? Today I went to a conference roundtable session on Space Tourism. It was a bit surreal listening to the very real conversations about commercial space travel, how “certified space (travel) agent” is apparently a thing, how one company expects to have a fleet of spaceships in […]

Out of Office

Greetings honoured email sender, I’m “out of office” for the next week and a half and may be slower than usual replying to your email. Actually, unless someone is going to die on the operating table without a response from me, I probably won’t respond at all until after this time. (By the way if […]

Tourism for Peace

It’s Remembrance Day in Canada today, and it’s impossible to simply “remember” the past right now without being hyperaware of everything that’s happening in the world in the present. The idea of tourism as a path for peace is something I’ve been passionate about since coming into the tourism industry. In my early days as […]

Alternate Universe Self

Do you ever wonder what the alternate universe version of yourself is up to? In an alternate universe, where you made slightly different decisions — or others did — that changed your trajectory only slightly, or altered the course of your life in more major ways… where you’d be now, what you’d be doing, who […]