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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Finish Strong and Carry On

The end is where we start from. -T.S. Eliot I’ve been out and about reading my fellow Nano Poblano team’s last posts of the month, and for many of us the sentiment is the same: we made it through a month of daily writing to build the writing habit, stretch the writing muscles, in order […]

Getting To The Page

It’s the second to last day of Nano Poblano, the month-long post-a-day writing challenge, and I’m still here. In this penultimate post, I find myself reflecting on how the month has gone. I don’t feel that any of my posts this month have been particularly revolutionary. Most of them have been written in an hour […]