Did I ever tell you about the summer that I spent out West? A group of us flew out to B.C., picked up a vehicle and spent the next thirteen weeks traveling across Western Canada.  We hit up some of the country’s biggest events and our only job was to have fun!  Our job was […]

Perfection and I aren’t very good friends.  I’ve chased after it for most of my life…and simply found it ever fleeting.  Constantly slipping between my fingers along with every thing else that I failed to notice in pursuit of the one thing that never really existed to begin with. Perfection is something you notice in […]

Some family of ours had this beautiful cottage when I was growing up.  Grandparents of theirs had bought the land on auction decades earlier and built a tiny little home right along the water. As a child, I spent countless summers there.  Playing with my cousins…canoeing around the lake…playing Monopoly at night…roasting marshmallows over a […]

Only once have I ever done a long distance relationship.  I was in my second year of University at the time and spending the summer out West.  After having just started dating someone earlier that year…we decided to do our best to make it work…despite the fact that I would be in a new city […]

It’s been said that the moment after I was officially married – the moment after we said our vows and had our first kiss – that my entire body language changed.  Apparently, my shoulders relaxed…my breathing deepened…my face brightened.  Apparently, I was glad that the hard part was over!! People’s reactions to the moment they […]

I once read that one of the things that ends up defining us the most as individuals is – ironically enough – the people we choose to surround ourselves with on a day-to-day basis.  They influence us…the change us…they become integral parts of who we become. I admit that I haven’t always made the best […]