One busted big toe, and then another I was in my bedroom, cutting my toenails, starting with baby toes, doing it with habitual muscle memory. When I got to my left big toe I clipped from the outside in, left to right. If you, too, have a dramatically curved big...
It’s Valentines’ Day, here again, the day to celebrate love in all it’s forms, and I have an always-current love letter to the world to share. This letter, which I wrote in 2013, is much loved by my friends and community, and, I admit, by myself. I reread it every...
A year and a half ago I moved my daughter and I to a small town in the Okanagan Valley on Syilx First Nations land, about a 4.5 hour drive from Vancouver. The 5 years previous to that we lived in a small town on Vancouver Island, also a 4.5 hour journey to Vancouver....
My own father passed away almost 8 years ago, at the age of 53, after living with an aggressive form of leukemia for 4 years. His birthday was last month (he would have turned 61) and his death anniversary is in July. My heart still feels tender and I still feel his...
This is a real and common challenge – how do we write about the compelling parts of our personal history when those tragic, comedic and painful memories are often tied to trauma that is still humming away inside of ourselves? (If you’d like this post as a PDF,...
This episode is a reflective one. Over the last year I’ve published conversations with 27 women, and I’ve learned a few things about connecting, intentional conversations (I love them!) and DIY podcasting. So, I thought I’d share. Enjoy! Resources...
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