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The Ultimate Preparation Guide for Self-Isolation
In a hundred years, I bet you didn’t think you were going to need an ultimate guide for self-isolation because of an actual pandemic, did you? Welcome to your first Zombie apocalypse. It’s been one hell of a year, hasn’t it? Lots of upheavals, change, tragic loss, murder hornets, no travel, the planet burning, and flooding in response to our careless destruction. It’s the sort of scene you’ve read about in science fiction novels. Well, here we are. Like hundreds of millions of people around the world in the travel and tourism industry, my business dissipated in the wake of this pandemic. And when our childcare facility closed up shop…
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From the Archives: 10 Totally Awesome Reasons I Love Being a New Mom
*Written nearly two years ago, but never published..until now!* On a scale of 1 to awesome, tonight might fall onto the not-so-awesome side of the scale. It’s 8:56pm on a Saturday night and we’re sitting at the 90 minute mark for my husband and I to get our 15 month old to sleep. I went in the last three times, to no avail, so now I get to put my feet up for the next half an hour while Dad tries some kind of sleeping Voodoo so we can have some semblance, albeit in separate rooms so I can write this article, of an evening to ourselves. Teamwork makes the…
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6 Covid Goals I Never Meant to Accomplish
Honesty time. When the quarantine hit, and your life as you knew it went into lock down, did you make yourself an epic task list? Come on, you did, didn’t you? Did you learn that new language? Did you finish up some old sewing projects? Did you tighten up that exercise regime and come out of quarantine with a six-pack and sculpted derriere just in time for summer? Pffftttt. Yeah. Me neither. I came out the other side of lock-down speaking worse English (consequences of hanging out with your toddler 24/7). I started and stopped a handful of craft projects (had the best intentions, I swear). And I gained a…
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Rant: I Have No Love for the Online Bully
Have we lost our minds? Because that is what it’s beginning to feel like. And no, I haven’t been living under a rock this last decade. I’ve definitely found myself entangled with a healthy number of “trolls” over the years, but since the beginning of this year, it feels like the venom, vitriol and hatred is cranked to full volume. Part of me, the calm, empathetic, hopeful, caring side wants to see past it. To dig down, unearth the humanity, see past the hateful words, brush aside the personal projections and send over a virtual hug. These are just people in pain who don’t know how to express themselves. Right?…
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A Brief History of Juneteenth Day
*This is a written transcript of my podcast episode on June 19th. If you would prefer to listen to the full episode you can find it here: We are moving through what feels like a new racial revolution, one where much of the world is muting themselves to amplify voices of colour, Indigenous Peoples and vulnerable communities. I think it’s important to not just to amplify the voices of today, but to echo the voices of our ancestors who worked tirelessly, endured unspeakable traumas and sacrificed their lives to achieve freedom and equality. Now more than ever, it’s time to look back on history, to learn from our mistakes, to…
