I’ve been going through my gmail inbox, trying to get rid of the backlog, and it’s so overwhelming I had to figure out a way to proceed. One idea I had was to search for certain senders and then delete most (or all) of the emails from them. I started with easy ones, like my...
I’m sitting here on February 20th thinking, where did the first 12th of the year go?? What did I accomplish? How is my 19 for 2019 list going? I don’t want the year to disappear on me without any of the changes I was hoping for, so I think a frequent look behind and ahead...
I went to Zumba class this morning, and, not for the first time, I found myself puzzled by the lopsided numbers in the class. Out of forty people (approximately), only two are men and only a handful are from visible minority groups, the rest are all white women between 18-65. The previous teacher, who quit...
My Birkin Sweater If you follow me on IG, you know I’ve recently completed my Birkin sweater, by Caitlin Hunter of Boyland Knitworks. Caitlin Hunter is a prolific and beloved designer, currently in vogue among hand knitters. I’m not the hugest fan of her designs, but then, I often don’t jump on the bandwagon at...
I’m not sure who coined the phrase, ” Season of Sacrifice” but I first heard it I believe, from Liz Craft on the podcast, Happier in Hollywood, to describe the period during which she and her partner, Sarah Fain, are writing screenplays. I loved the term because it applies so aptly to the period of...
I just returned from a great few days in Toronto at the first ever Canadian Women’s Brass Collective event, nicknamed, “That’s What she Said”. It was, especially for an inaugural effort, an incredible experience. It was well organized, well-run and it brought people from all over the country together to play and give lectures, workshops...
It’s January and I’ve decided to follow my guru, Gretchen Rubin, and make a “19 for 2019” list. It’s like I’m making 19 resolutions, except I don’t have to throw my hands up at the end of January if I haven’t done them yet, because I have the WHOLE year to put them in place....
I have a favourite song from my daughter, Erica Lee Martin’s album, Out of The Playground. It’s called I Push On and it just gets me. It’s poignant and haunting and it speaks about facing challenges and finding inspiration to keep going. I just love it. For those of us who aren’t blessed with an...
I was feeling the greyness of November very heavily on my psyche the other day, when I wrote the post, November Blues. I don’t think I really believed that it was only the dreariness of the weather that was making me feel so down, but when I woke up this morning and the world was...
It’s a dreary month, no question, but the Nordic countries have something they call “hygge”, a Danish word defined in English as “A quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being.” (thank you, Oxford Living Dictionary) I think the idea is to make up for the lack of light...