life

A Message for the Mean Girls at the Gym

15 minute read

Full confession: I’m not a gym rat by any means - I prefer to get exercise by walking or swimming, though I have rediscovered the fun of the recumbent bike w...

Word Wednesday - Be the Duck

8 minute read

This is the 4th Word Wednesday post I’ve started to write this week - hence why it’s being finished on a Thursday - the others will come out when the time is...

2 am ramblings

3 minute read

Tonight, I tried to fill my head with beauty to mitigate the horror my mind is imagining to go along with the news stories I read. I worked a holiday concert...

Please Excuse my absence.

4 minute read

It’s been a rough couple of months. Every time I think I’m going to get back on track and blog again something happens. First it was pneumonia. I have had it...

Sponsorship Questions

5 minute read

I’ve been invited to attend the She’s Connected Conference in Toronto in September.  I’m really excited to go because I want to learn how to make my blog and...

Cottage

2 minute read

I love heading to the cottage.  Not the drive but just the act of actively getting away from it all.  It’s not that I don’t love life in Kitchener but I feel...

Only Children…

6 minute read

Some recent news articles have made me think  about my status as an only child.  My mum, asked me a few months ago whether I felt left out because I was an o...

Unfair

2 minute read

Life is unfair sometimes.  I am an adult and I get that concept.  What I don’t understand is why my friend Mishi is being dealt such a crap hand by the unive...

exhaustion

less than 1 minute read

the past week has been exhausting both mentally and physically - how does my body choose to react to the stress?  By making sure I get less than 5 hours of s...

on the loss of a friend

1 minute read

I lost a friend tonight. Not just a friend but an ally. She took her own life because she couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. Now here’s where I...