The First Pancake

The beginning of the year often brings a sense of a fresh start. While I don’t usually make new year’s resolutions, I do try to lean into that feeling of new year energy, often activated by a healthy jump in the frigid ocean. (I’m talking about the polar bear swim of course, a Canadian New […]

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 […]

Colourful

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

It’s Okay

It’s okay to be tired. It’s okay to say no. It’s okay to be uninspired. It’s okay if you don’t know. It’s okay if you make mistakes. It’s okay to stand your ground. It’s okay if you feel happy. It’s okay if you feel sad. It’s okay if you feel many things deeply. It’s not […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.” […]