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…
How to turn a business trip into a retreat
1. Ignore all those "big box" homogeneous business hotels perched on a strip of fast moving freeway close to the airport.2. Find a quiet bed and breakfast or old restored inn in a quiet neighbourhood with lots of green space and plenty of character homes.3. It's...
Do you want to see how lucky I am?
These three beautiful people call me mom. And this man calls me wife.Could I possibly be more lucky?
TGIF
I am trusting… that the little pieces of me I am offering up to my friends will be held tenderly in their hands…that when I share my ideas they won’t be rejected… that reaching out is better than holding back… that my recent “stroke of inspiration” is worth sharing...
Reflections on my 43rd birthday
1. I didn’t know 43 would feel so YOUNG!2. I thought I’d be smarter by now.3. No matter how old and comfortable in your own skin you get, it’s still always nice when someone remembers and wishes you a happy birthday.4. It seems my daughters managed to pick up a little...
Stop dabbling. Start doing.
"I didn't know you were a singer-songwriter," I said to my dinner companion after he told me he'd be meeting Vance Gilbert (whom I'd just mentioned) at the upcoming Folk Festival singer-songwriter retreat."Welllll..." he hesitated, "I dabble in it.""Why is it that...
Ten things I’ve learned while trying to be more fearless
Prompted by a comment from Joyce, I thought it was high time I wrote another fearless post. If you're just catching up, you can find the video introduction to my "year of living more fearlessly" here, and follow-up posts here, here, here, here, here, and here.)Here...
A clean house and a prize – what more could one ask for?
Because all the crazy-making busy-ness I mentioned a couple of posts ago was stressing me out, I took yesterday off - just to clean the house. Between work, soccer games, and business travel, there is never enough time to decently clean our house. Marcel used to keep...
Things I learned after a looooooong day at a film shoot
1. There is a lot of food available on a film set. A. LOT!2. Imagine the number of people you'd expect to be on a film set. Double or triple it. It takes about 30 people to shoot a 90 second video.3. Even though there are a lot of talented people on site (camera...
How to make yourself crazy in eight easy steps
Things I've had to do or cope with in the last week that are a little crazy-making:1. A father-in-law ends up in the hospital and every piece of news is a little worse than the piece we'd heard before.2. Juggling three kids in soccer means trying to get them to 2-4...
Where to from here
We weren’t careful enough, talking in front of the children. We thought they’d heard it all before – that we weren’t really sharing new information. But what they hadn’t heard before was the worry that had started to creep into our voices. The possibility that this...
Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
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