“How do you feel, dude?” my husband, Ted, asked curiously as he passed by me in his yoga class, trying my hardest to do a warrior one pose. “Like I never left,” I replied without skipping a beat. And I meant it. The last time I stepped onto a mat in that studio was February […]

Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Yes! … Of course! … Well, sort of… … Mostly… … A little bit…. … Does a half truth count? Because if so, then YES! Wholeheartedly. That’s the thing about the photos we post on social media. They are the […]

I’ve had a really hard time writing posts these last few months. It feels like every time I sit down to write something, nothing seems to come out. And when something does comes out, I feel like it completely ignores the scope of the political landscape we are experiencing right now. I’ve written three posts […]

Photo credit: Eva Marie Pursley This past Sunday, February 19th, I celebrated a very important birthday. No, it’s not the day I was born (that was June 5th about a million years ago, so mark your calendars. I like peonies. And pretty things.). It’s not the day I gave up chocolate (ha, ya right, like […]

Some days I feel like there is so much to do and not enough time in which to do it. But I’m excited about the list of things in front of me, and I can’t wait to get started. Other days, I feel completely unmotivated to the point that I begin to question the validity […]

Have you ever been to Montreal in the winter? Well, it’s bitingly cold. It’s not usually very sunny. And because it lasts so long, if you’re not careful, it can get very, very depressing. It was a (typical) stupidly freezing cold day in Montreal on some weekday in February in 2006. I was walking to […]