There are two books I read last year that I loved, but that hit too close to home. Eat, Pray, Love, about a divorcee who uses a year to go find herself in Italy, Indonesia, and India, and Kabul Beauty School, about a beautician who leaves her family to go to Afghanistan, and ends up [...]
Oh, Forever Ago
There are some experiences that put you firmly in a “before it happened” and “after it happened” territory. Moments that define how you look at the world. And they always seem to be moments that start normally enough. It was St. Patrick’s day, I was 19, and I hadn’t seen Alex in months. Her short [...]
When we were little, we lived in the country. There were horses in our little barn, cows and farm animals across the road at my friend Brent’s house. I knew which electric fences were on at what time of day and how hay is loaded into the lofts of old fashioned barns. I knew that [...]
I’d had medium length hair for years. From grade seven on, I was shoulder length and by the time that grade twelve was over I was officially done with my old identity. I decided to take a year off school to recharge my batteries and enroll the next year with a totally new group of [...]
There is something about live performance that puts me back together again – it can be music, theatre, whatever – but there is something about sitting down and watching someone conjure something that is otherworldly. Not to borrow from Brookem’s book of course! Watching Death Cab for Cutie take the stage and pull the crowd [...]
