IMPORTANT UPDATE
As of April 2024, my blog has moved over to Substack where I’m co-hosting A Tender Space (together with my business partner at Centre for Holding Space). You can find my new writing plus podcast episodes there, or sign up below to get them in your inbox.
Here’s some of my earlier writing…
Interviewed by Liz
Liz sent me some interview questions, and though I've been a little deliquent lately (not to mention sleepy) I finally got around to answering them...1) You've traveled a lot for work. Is there any one place that you've been to that you would like to take your family...
Sleep
Some of the parenting experts seem to think you can "teach your child to sleep through the night." Based on personal experience, I kinda think it's baloney.One would think that after three children, I'd have perfected the "teaching". Quite the opposite. Sleep patterns...
Three books
I’ve read three books lately that have all had “staying power” in one way or another. I find myself thinking back to all of them now and then. They’ve also all become the kind of books that get mentioned in conversation, as in “I read something in a book once…”...
Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony – A Photo Essay
Step 1 - prepareStep 2 - roastStep 3 - boil waterStep 4 - grindStep 5 - scoopStep 6 - pourStep 7 - savourNotes:- do all this while burning frankincense on a separate burner (can be seen on the bottom left of the picture below - unfortunately I neglected to take a...
Random bits
I'm at home with a sick child this morning, so my mind has a little time to wander to random places...- I've been thinking alot about the Ethiopian coffee ceremony lately. It's a beautiful thing, where you watch them "create" rather than simply "brew" your coffee. I'm...
Pictures for Lucia
South Gondar, Ethiopia
Looking for gold.
The pot of gold may very well be at the end of our street! Maddie's ready to start digging for it.Right after she's finished skipping through the puddles. Eventually, the sun came out, the rainbow faded, and it was time for some swinging.Conversation just before the...
Politics
My kids want to stay up late tonight. Not because there's a movie they're dying to watch. Not because there's a sporting event that they can't bear to miss the end of. Nope - they want to stay up so that they can watch the results of the provincial election. They're...
If this is 41, when will I start feeling like a grown-up?
I turned 41 today.Who knew 41 could feel so young?Who knew I'd still know so little about the meaning of life?Who knew I'd still have so many doubts and insecurities?Who knew I'd still often feel like I'm just "playing house"?Who knew I'd still get zits and blackheads...
Good to go, good to come home
I just returned from another business trip in Toronto. This is what I wrote in my lovely room at The French Connection bed and breakfast...It is good to be here. In this place.Good to wander on Queen Street where the city pulses with life.Good to meander along the...
Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
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