Hi Reader, Life is full these days… Spring has sprung and so the backyard needs tending, the house begs for Spring Cleaning, the kids are wrapping up extra-curriculars and starting new ones, work keeps chugging along, and oh ya, there’s a serious threat of fascism. Just another Tuesday night, right? In the mess of it all, have you been craving a moment to just breathe… and maybe pick up your pen again? The Spring Series of Sacred Pages starts next week and the 3-week workshop series is...
10 days ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, Writing has been challenging lately. I feel too much. I open socials and the devastating state of the world is right there on display, for us all to watch and grieve. I look around my house at the mess, the endless to-do list, the ongoing needs of a family where everyone is living with a chronic illness, and I feel like it’s impossible for anything to be different, for it to ever be easier. I feel the weight of being a mother and global citizen at this time, and the further burden...
16 days ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader Spring is here, though chilly. We’ve passed the equinox and the days are noticeably longer. There have even been some real beauties, those warmish blue-sky days that pull us outside. Sometimes though they fool us, looking so nice but then a harsh wind reminds the skin that it’s still March. For a few more days anyways… It's been a lengthy landing back here in Ontario, with the memories of our time in Costa Rica teasing us, taunting us with the desire for just one more sunset, one...
29 days ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader, On Saturday I was in a MOOD. Grumpy, frustrated, annoyed, a little depressed. It was an all around ugh state of being. The kind of mood that used to flow into the next day, and the next… the week or month… I never knew how long it would take to shake off. But now I know how to stop it before it takes over. Here are all the things I did to get through my mood without repressing my feelings, and come through the other side content with myself: Step 1: I talked about it. I didn’t even...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Happy Sunday Reader, Well we got home a few days ago, and I've spent most of the time since in bed. The overnight in the Chicago airport along with travel in general took a lot out of me. We also came home with a bit of a cold so that led to an extra, unexpected day of rest. Plus I'm getting my period so throw that in the mix and... my bed is a good place to be. But I do not feel at ease. I feel torn. Incredibly torn. I'm happy to be home. I missed my house, my kitchen, my bed, my cat. I...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Or at least, getting there... Reader, it's 2:30 in the morning and I'm sitting in the Chicago airport. My youngest, who can sleep just about anywhere, is passed out on a cushy bench and I too was cuddled up there the last few hours, but it's too cold and loud for me to fall into slumber. So I figured I'd write. The dark hours always seem to be good writing hours. Maybe even more so as we are on the cusp of eclipse and full moon energy, the Blood Moon. For years I've enjoyed the astrological...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader, Although most people I meet LOVE Costa Rica - its beaches, jungles and Pura Vida people - it's a complicated place for me.... when I was eleven years old my father decided to move here, leaving me and the rest of his life behind in Canada. I kinda hated him for it, and hated the country too. A few years passed with long hand-written letters and the very occasional phone call until I was fourteen and came for my first visit. We toured the beautiful beaches, watched Arenal Volcano...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, This year’s theme for International Women’s Day is fitting for the world we find ourselves in: Accelerate Action. On the IWD website, they state that at the current rate of change, we won’t experience full gender equality until 2158. And with current politics feeling like we’re taking massive steps backwards, it may be even longer than that. We do indeed need to #AccelerateAction. How do we do that? How do we create positive change in a world that increasingly threatens the rights...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader I don't usually write mid-week but my mind still feels busy. I still want to give a little more in these uneasy times. Like I said on Sunday, there is so much to say, yet it’s hard to know what to say that's actually helpful. When that happens for me, I do two things: I write it out. I just write and write and write. No one will see it so I don't need to censor myself. I just ramble, get all the thoughts down. Get angry on the page. Get hopeful on the page. Vomit the rage of living...
2 months ago • 2 min read