A Winter Reflective

Apartment

You know when something shocking and traumatic happens, and you feel like you’ll never be able to talk about it? It’ll be a dirty secret burning inside your heart FOREVER? Then some time passes and the sharp edge of despair dulls, and you think what was the big deal? That wasn’t so bad. You big [...]

Sleepy Bears & Secret Activities

SarahBear

Hrrmph. Growl. What’s going on? What time is it? What day is it? Month? And more importantly, WHICH ONE OF YOU POKED THE SLEEPING BEAR?!?!?! Just give me a minute or two to wake up. Y A W N ! STTRRREEETTCCCHHH There, that’s better. Now let me see…oh my! It’s April! When did that happen? [...]

The Very Best of Visiting Home

No Gizmo for me!

Remember that time I went back to BC for the holidays and I was all yeah, I’m going to write all the time. I’m going to update my blog so often that I’ll crash the internet. That’s how prolific I’m going to be! Okay, maybe you didn’t know about my personal ambition of breaking the [...]

My West Coast Moment

West Coast

I’m having a moment. Please bear with me. (Note that six words into this post I had to stop to figure out if it’s “bear” or “bare” or a third mystery spelling I’m unaware of. I googled “please bear with me” and found whole blogs dedicated to the phrase, and several forums of people discussing [...]

Dare We Compare?

MeAndSidneyCrosby

It’s Wednesday afternoon, and you all know what that means. That’s right! It’s time for a random list! Okay, so that’s not a thing. But it should be a thing. The Wednesday Afternoon List thing. Can I get a WOOT WOOT if you’re with me? This week’s list is — drum roll, please… How Halifax [...]

When is a Cat Not a Cat?

Bartelby, Eater of Souls

When I was a kid my grandparents had a cat that thought it was a raccoon. See, we had this family of raccoons living in our backyard, and they would come to our back door and we would feed them crusts of bread. One would sit on the little shelf outside the kitchen window and [...]

A Wildly Funny (and Totally True) Thing Happened on the Way to Yoga

DontPanic

Jeepers, what a crazy few months! I have so many heartwarming, intellectually stimulating, morally reassuring and devilishly funny stories to share. You see, after my last post on September 19th (where I wrapped up my road trip) I had the best of intentions to continue updating my blog regularly with all of the charming hijinks [...]

Girl Meets Canada: The End

First night camping back in May.

As you may have noticed, I’ve ben avoiding writing a post for almost two weeks. This is for a reason. Not a great reason, mind you. But a reason none the less. My reason is as follows: it will be my last post of my Girl Meets Canada series. Because my road trip is over. It’s [...]

Girl Meets Canada: My St. John’s Meltdown

Cape Spear

Day 114 (Tuesday August 31st) Since I left Halifax 23 days ago, I haven’t spent much time with other people. It’s mostly been short exchanges at grocery stores and gas stations, and most topics of conversation have revolved around requests for me to sign little pieces of paper, and me complying. Let’s backtrack even further. [...]

Girl Meets Canada: What’s in a Name?

Twillingate Lighthouse View

Day 111 (Saturday, Aug 28th) I put way too much faith in maps. Not so much in their ability to tell me where things are in relation to other things (I have faith in their ability to do that for sure, but I wouldn’t call it “too much” faith. I think it’s the right amount [...]