Communities are funny things.  We tend to connect with people around us as our vulnerability grows and our common interests flourish. Admittedly, we didn’t really know a lot of people in our neighborhood until we started to have our kids…and they started to have their kids…and our kids started to know each other!  Pretty soon, […]

As an artist, I live in a world that is anything but black & white.  I live in a world of margin…a world of possibility…a world of uncertainty.  I believe in things that can’t be seen and I follow roads with the prettiest flowers instead of roads with the easiest path.  My life is about […]

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 […]

I met Priya for the first time on a warm Saturday afternoon in June.  She was asleep in the living room when I first walked in and she looked like nothing short of a porcelain doll. She was about ten days old at the time. I met my husband for the first time just a […]

My very first night living on my own here in Ottawa, I walked the length of the Rideau Canal.  It was a long walk.  It was a beautiful walk.  It was an immensely joyous walk.  The air was warm…the city was quiet…and all I could think about was how excited I was for this new […]

A number of years ago, when I was in New York City…I walked into this beautiful dress store.  Unlike everything else in Manhattan…he seemed especially small and quaint.  There was a gorgeous chandelier hanging from the center of the room and each wall had a simple white trim running along perfectly painted walls.  Bright windows […]