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 […]

Rainy Return

In true “Raincouver” style, a wet welcome awaited me when my plane landed in Vancouver. After spending the last nearly two weeks enveloped in warmth and surrounded by palm trees and turquoise seas, I was not looking forward to returning to a grey rainy November. There’s a certain comfort in the rain though, the cool […]

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 […]

Name That Bond

Went on a James Bond-themed tour of Nassau, Bahamas today, and this blog isn’t normally a travel blog, but what the heck… here’s a few fun moments from the day of chasing Bond… Bonus points to anyone who can name the Bond movie(s) from these scenes!!! That’s all I’ve got for now – can anyone […]

(b)leisure haiku

On a “Bleisure” trip The leisure part starts today 🤙 Gone cruising 🚢

Time Cheat

I have a confession to make. I have been cheating on the “post-a-day” goals of Nano Poblano for the last few days. The truth is, I’m currently in East Coast time, but my blog is in West Coast time, and I haven’t changed it. So if I post after midnight, it’s the next day here […]

Overheard Haiku

A chicken sandwich on rye, from 40 feet will break a car windshield -Overheard in a conversation It’s not strictly speaking a proper haiku. But it’s one of the funniest (and entirely serious) things that came up in conversation so far at the conference I’m currently attending, so I simply had to share it. Can […]

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 […]