2021 Redux & Redemption
I closed out 2021 on a challenging note: losing my last living grandparent to COVID. I had wanted, initially, to do a retrospective of the year. I saw a lot of my peers putting out similar content, which inspired and galvanized me and filled me with an odd sort of despair. Anymore it seems that…
A new year of grief
Whether personal or pandemic-sized, grief is heavy. You can spread your grief over an entire world or narrow it down to one acute pain point; either way, the effort of carrying it will wear you down.
No-Post November
Or, My On-Going Struggle With Social Media Every morning in November I got up and made a cup of velvety, floral coffee from the Iconoclast Roasters blend that my friend Amandah brought me. While I did make three Instagram posts this month, none of them were about the coffee. I didn’t take any pictures of…
Autumn Calling (September Round Up)
September is over already, which I find incredibly rude. I don’t know where the summer went (although if I’m being brutally honest, it feels like I blinked once in January 2020 when I opened my eyes, I was here). Today, September 30, 2021, is Canada’s first National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, in response to…
Writing, Rewriting, Those Endless Summer Days & The Rude Return of Fall
I haven’t written a blog in a while, but I promise there is actual writing-related content buried in here. Just let me wax poetic about the seasons first, real quick (…and if you don’t have the time and you know what you’re here for, I’ll throw a little header over the writing bit, so you…
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