My New Beginning Started With The Polar Bear Dip and Ended with a ‘Holy Shit!’
How will 2015 be better? Like last year, I will commit to a series of small changes… but there are a few things that I want to do differently. I’m […]
“Sometimes we are called upon to give up the part of our life that we hold most dear” – My Personal Experience with Breakthrough Pain
“When the possibility of radical transformation presents itself, it brings with it considerable fear. Once the door is opened, the bird who has lived in a cage all its life […]
#ThanksTeach – Why I went to Visit my Grade 8 Teacher, Mme. Betyna, 13 years later
In a contest that I recently launched for Cella Magazine, we’ve asked bloggers to share a moment when a teacher they’ve had went above and beyond, and then to share […]
A New Christmas Tradition and My New Year’s Resolution: ‘Do Less with More Joy’
This Christmas, my family decided to do something a little more intimate. Four presents sat underneath the Christmas tree when we all woke up in the morning. One for and […]
“I went through a brief period of being a good student… But inevitably it faded” – ‘Not That Kind of Girl’ by Lena Dunham (A Review)
I recently finished reading Lena Dunham’s new book ‘Not That Kind of Girl,’ and wow. Where do I even start? When I first opened the book, titles like ‘Who moved […]
What I’m beginning to understand about perfection, shame and connection
“Gary’s scapulas used to stick out in a way that made Burton aware of the elegiac beauty of the human who was his grandson. This was his curse, he now […]