My Year-End Retro Method
My first journal entry in 2022 reeked of fear. COVID case counts were high, my daughters hadn’t yet been vaccinated, and no announcement had been made regarding the return to school. That first entry seemed to set the tone for much of 2022. The call to manage my fears to navigate uncertainty. A quarter of…
For the love of books.
A few years ago, I was chatting with colleagues about TV series worth watching. A colleague recommended the series Shameless. As he explained the concept, I thought, I don’t need to see it, I lived a version of it as a child. I grew up in a small rural community in Northern Ontario. The population…
Why am I on the mat again?
Maybe its COVID. Maybe its months of social isolation resulting in an overstimulated mind. Maybe its the constant feed of news articles about injustices caused and fed by white privilege. I find myself questioning the authenticity of pretty much everything in my life. My yoga practice is my latest target. I’ve been practicing yoga for…
Old Normal/New Normal
My brain is rotting. I can feel it. I blame fourteen months of excessive screen time. What’s excessive? What am I left with? Eyes that feel like they’ve been cooked and a brain that “breaks” every once in awhile. This tells me Zoom fatigue is real. According to experts, video calls require more focus. We’re…
2020 in Review
It would be easy, even tempting, to reduce 2020 to the year of the pandemic, natural disasters and political clusterfucks. Truth be told, this is all I could see this morning when I sat coffee in hand, frozen in time. With a deep breath or two, I forced myself to recenter; to focus on what’s…
2020 Reading List
I’d like to say I devoted quite a bit of time to reading because of COVID-19 but that would be lying. I’ve just fully leaned into being a bookworm. Here are the books I read in 2020, in no particular order.
Ten Sustainable Swaps in 2020
The holiday season, for me, is a period of rest, self-reflection, and introspection. While COVID-19 is the problem directly in front of us, Climate Change remains a pressing issue. As two professionals in the knowledge sector, my husband and I have had the benefit of remaining employed this year. As a result, the pandamic hasn’t…
13 Things I’ll Never Buy Again
Two weeks ago, French fashion designer and video blogger, Justine Leconte, posted a video titled “Thirteen things I no longer buy”. For a number of us, COVID and self-isolation has triggered the need to purge, or at least question all the things we own. Like Leconte, I’ve been sorting through storage spaces and raising my…
Human(s) in Training 