The Opposite of Black & White

The opposite of black and white isn’t grey. When people disagree they tend to take polarizing sides. But they truth isn’t black and white, its not always so clear as right vs. wrong or good vs. evil. The truth, as I’ve often heard it said and even said myself, is somewhere in the grey. It’s […]

Wisdom Wednesday

I’ve done a lot of writing today already, about some hard things, and I’m not sure I have much left to give. I’ve also done a lot of feeling, and thinking… And worrying. Especially worrying. Haven’t we all? So I turned where I often turn when I’m feeling particularly hopeless. To the wisest person I […]

Mototherapy

Needed a mental health break today, and my motorcycle has been sorely neglected this Fall and goes to its winter home tomorrow, so I took him for one last joyride. The weather was perfect for a ride up Cypress / Hollyburn Mountain in West Van, albeit a bit cold: 10 degrees celsius in Vancouver, probably […]

We Know How This Ends

We already know how this ends, so why do we keep playing along? Is there not enough darkness in the world already? Is there not enough pain, grief, death, injustice, suffering yet? The worse it gets, the worse it gets. And the harder it is to get out of. We already know how this ends, […]

Follow Your Fire

One of the things I find most inspiring is people who are following their fire. Fire, or whatever you want to call it: following their dream, living their passion, finding their purpose, focusing on their One Thing. Whether it’s the friend who quit their adult-job-with-a-pension in a landlocked place to follow their dream of living […]

Phoenix Launch

Tonight I went to a book launch, so today’s post is dedicated to Margarita Artista, my soon-to-be cousin-in-law and now a published author, and her new book! Margarita has been working for 11 years on this magical realism urban fantasy, and launched the first book in the series today! Here’s the description of her first […]

Night Ride

After a 12 hour workday between two jobs I needed to unwind so I took the long way along the sea wall on the way home. When I need a moment to think, or unwind, or breathe, I’m always drawn to the water. As I biked, I thought to myself “I don’t know where I’m […]

The Call

It’s the first day of November and I woke up feeling “the call.” It was unexpected as I had already pretty much written off the idea of doing Nano Poblano — writing and posting something every day this month — this year because of all the usually reasons… Too busy. No extra time. Juggling too […]

If we were having cocktails

There’s a popular blog post format, “If we were having coffee,” but the kinds of things I’d tell you over coffee would probably be a little more… cream and sugar, and a little less… whisky. And with my 39th birthday bearing down on me, I’m in a whisky kind of mood. If we were having […]

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.” […]