That Home Feeling

When you’ve been around the world and back time and again “home” becomes more of a feeling than a place. So I’ve learned to treasure places that help me find my way back to that feeling of “home.”

Off Duty Peach

What if Princess Peach just went on to live her own life? What if, after all the drama of escaping the baddies and pressure of saving the kingdom and all that, she got to put her feet up and drink a peach mojito (or espresso martini) or whatever? I suppose it wouldn’t make a very […]

My “This Is 40”

I turned 40 recently. And I was worried about it for a while… until I wasn’t. Because I realized, part of the way there, around 39-and-a-half (yes I still count my age in parts) that everyone’s #thisis40 is different, and that the measures of success, or “making it,” are different for everyone. At just-turned-39 I […]

Wrapped

If you’re a Spotify person, or even if you’re not, you’ve probably seen the “Spotify Wrapped” posts popping up around social media today. I don’t usually like companies/programs to know a whole lot about my life, but with Spotify… the relationship is almost intimate. Like, Spotify knows me, and sometimes it’s almost eerie how spot […]

Threads

Tonight I was invited to share a bit of my life story with a group of friends. I’ve shared parts of my story many times before, including all around this blog. However, it was the first time in a long time where, in the course of telling my story, I didn’t feel compelled to talk […]

The Fog Is Here

The fog settled in today. That harbinger of winter, in my humid coastal city, as the temperature cools and the air turns itself opaque. It happened within moments, while shopping with my roommate for ingredients for our official welcoming winter meal. We entered the store through clear air and emerged into mist. I feel comforted […]

Irreplaceable

Lately it seems a few things around here are are burning out. My electric kettle has chosen this week to cease its functioning. It was on the fritz for awhile, and now it’s not coming on at all. My bathroom lightbulbs have also both gone out within days of each other, as if they planned […]

New Traditions

Today I went to the Christmas market with my brother and sis-in-law. It’s the third year we’ve done it so I think that makes it a tradition? The holiday traditions I grew up with don’t exist so much now. For one thing, my grandparents would always host big Christmas meals for the extended family, and […]

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.