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…
What is so dangerous about women?
Over the holidays, I have been making my way through Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi. It's a fascinating memoir about a university professor who, after teaching in universities in Iran for a number of years and giving up out of sheer...
Don’t just do something. Sit there.
From an ad for meditation cushions, it jumped out at me. Don't just do something. Sit there. Hmmm. Clever. I liked it enough to clip it out and add it to my vision board for 2011. Yesterday, after dropping my niece off at the airport, I brought a chai latte and my...
A blessing for the New Year
On the day when The weight deadens On your shoulders And you stumble, May the clay dance To balance you. And when your eyes Freeze behind The gray window And the ghost of loss Gets into you, May a flock of colors, Indigo, red, green And azure blue, Come to awaken in...
The joy factor
Almost every time I do a vision board, I think "ooooh... this one is my favourite so far!" That's how I felt last night when I completed this one. I love it. It's the biggest one I've done so far (I wanted to think BIG for 2011), and it's colourful and beautiful and...
To you, our next generation
I marvel at you allthe way you have growninto suchbeautifulintelligentuniquefunnycreativeremarkableindividualsI delight in your sillinessyour kindnessyour wisdomyour gentlenessyour energyyour hopefulnessI want so much for youa world filled with beautya life filled...
The word for 2011
I'm choosing JOY this year. I'm choosing to focus my energy on what brings JOY into my life. I'm choosing to surround myself with my JOY people. I'm choosing to build my business around what brings JOY to myself and others instead of just what makes the most strategic...
The Journey to the place I am now
I don't make New Year's resolutions. I don't like making promises to myself that I'm sure to break. For the last two years, however, I have been choosing a word for the year - something that sets my intention for a direction I want to head. Two years ago, I chose...
Tips for creativity – plus a tour of my studio
I've been having lots of fun making some very cool Christmas gifts in my little studio, plus I'm working on launching a creativity workshop in the new year, and so my thoughts have been on creativity. In that spirit, I made this little video to share some of my fun...
Can we move on already?
Sometimes, we're our own worst enemies. Sometimes we SAY we want change - we want men to be able to express their feminine sides, we want equality in our homes and places of work, and we want ALL of what women have to offer to be valued in the world. BUT... then when...
It’s pretty simple – just be kind.
"Be kind," my dad used to say, almost every time we left the house. In high school, I mostly ignored his words. It's what high schoolers do. When I left home and the parting was more significant, I paid a bit more attention, but still barely noticed what words he...
Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
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