If home is where your heart is, then mine will always be in Kingston.
It’s taken me five continents, 55 countries and 29 years to appreciate her charm.
About a month and a half ago I packed up my life, sold all my things and bought the biggest suitcase I could find. But before I left to go travelling for the year, I put a few boxes into storage that were filled…
How to put into words, what I just felt in my heart? Last night we went to an old palace to listen to Fado, music of the soul. The palace had long since been converted into a small chapel and we sat between it’s…
I walked down to the waterfront today and it remembered me. The last time that we were together I was soaring along the promenade on a bicycle. This was four years ago when I was travelling with some girl friends and we were searching…
If there’s one rule that I will always live by: It’s that you should do the things that scare you. So on July 25th, I’ll be leaving my lovely life here in Vancouver, spending a week at home with my family and then moving…
Don’t let your life be about the things you didn’t do.…
August is suddenly here and as usual I’ve spent half of my summer breezing through books. Here are ten more of my favourite novels to bring to the beach: 1. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari – one comedian’s social study on how technology has…
The world is full of so many tiny beautiful things. I woke up this morning to pretty pink lilies, blooming in my room and phone calls from all of my favourite people. The sun is shining, I haven’t stopped smiling and for my old…
I devour books. It’s what I do. It’s what I’ve always done since I grew up with two older brothers who loved Mortal Kombat more than colouring and while my Mum worked exhausting night shifts. I didn’t realize until I got older how growing up…
Published as Fifty Shades of Jian Ghomeshi by the Georgia Straight Online, March 3rd, 2015. After an ongoing National discussion about sexual assault; after countless editorials and intense public scrutiny over Jian Ghomeshi and the Dalhousie Dentistry Gentlemen; after petitions were signed and outrage…