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During one of many exhausting lockdowns I read a book that was gifted to me by the mom of my late and dear friend. The book ‘E²’ by Pam...

In late January Steve and I looked at each other and had to do a big check in. What are we doing? On our 15th rental, having spent our...

I walked back down the hill and watched as a huge morpho butterfly fluttered by me, its massive iridescent blue wings glinting in the...

Imagine yourself at a game of tug of war. See yourself, which side you’re on. Feel the rope twisting around your hands, the weight of it,...

My mom takes daily walks at the river by her house. There is a turtle conservation project and over time my mom has been witness to some...

I remember once when I got my two dollar allowance (remember two dollar bills?!) and I promptly gave it to a man begging on the street....

I recognize in myself that I tend to want to live in fairy tales, I want to read them and I want to write them. I sat down many times...

2020 gotcha like? 2020 vision; It’s almost too easy to use that term this year but boy does it feel appropriate. Just over a year ago I...

When people see those big promotions for setting intentions and resolutions I think many can feel overwhelmed by it all. The whole ‘new...

Sometimes after the girls are in bed I look through the photos on my phone and see them in the quiet of the moment I’m in, instead of the...

This experience doesn’t exist today. Not readily, not easily. Sure it still does for the few who are not willing to depart from what they...

I’ve had the beautiful distractions of house hunting and moving plus taking on a homeschooling rhythm, it’s given me a needed rest from...

It was a weekend retreat spent in the wilderness outside Kingston, a beautiful reprieve from my usually full days. The woman who...

A couple weeks back I shared a post from my friend Sarah on Facebook, about the importance of encouraging our daughters (but all children...

I will never look back on this time and regret it. I won’t regret how much togetherness there was, how close we all were, how day upon...

It’s all breaking down. School. Work. Society. Medicine. Economy. Technology. All the pillars of the foundation of life that we’ve been...

I have a book for each of my girls and I write to them on big holidays and their birthdays, I’ve been doing it since they were each in...

If you look up the antonym to logic you’ll come across a list of words that likely no one would choose to be defined by. Absurdity,...

I’ve rewritten this several times, l don’t usually do that. One of my readers and besties asked me the other day what my writing process...

Stock photo of the beautiful but shitty kookaburra When I was in my early 20s I backpacked for 6 months in Australia. I could write...