Category: Reflections
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My big moments & lessons of 2024
2024 was a handful. This year contained a lot of extraordinary accomplishments and milestones, most notably buying our first home and celebrating 10 years since meeting my husband. This year also contained a lot of heaviness. Job loss, health scares amongst family and friends, interpersonal challenges with people we care about and a whole lot…
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A time traveling journal
I recently re-read some old entries of my lilac coloured journal from 2020, and I reached an aha moment. Enough time had passed for me to understand that the act of journaling isn’t only to document present time or what we want to manifest for the future, but that perhaps there is a purpose to…
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The serendipitous picnic table
I was not having a good day. I had a heavy feeling of worry, anxiety and overwhelm in my heart for the past weeks, but especially that day, it felt the heaviest. I am getting better at accepting bad days. The previous version of myself would have utterly resisted them. I used to feel guilty…
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A Thank You Note to 2023
A few months ago, when the previous season was changing, I had exciting intentions to write about my travel highlights of Ireland. As I write this today, with just a few days left in 2023, my Ireland posts remain in drafts, not nearly ready to be published yet. Life…got busy. A series of life changes…
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Lessons From a Hydrangea Covered in Snow
Another storm passed through the previous night, but the morning’s clear sky was a nod of approval to keep my friend’s coffee date. I made my way up the side streets passing by snowy Victorian houses and whimsical mailboxes. Halfway to the coffee shop, I spotted a dead hydrangea draped in snow on someone’s front…
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The Clarity After a Snowstorm
A storm was approaching, and the rows of lit up windows in the neighbouring buildings indicated that people were hunkered down at home. Starry lights were glowing from multiple windows across from us. A few particularly caught my eye. The cluster of pink and orange glows framed by twinkle lights. Below it, a yellow and…
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Sundays at the Art Gallery
Being a tourist in my own city is something I admit I don’t do enough of. Since the pandemic, my husband and I made a vow to check out more places in the city (or province, and even country!) that we’ve unintentionally taken for granted. One of those touristy places that we’ve never been to…
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The Gift of Printed Photo Albums
The end of the year is always a nostalgic time. It’s a time when we take stock of our big moments, our small moments, reflect on the lessons of the year, and dream about the possibilities of the next. There is a little space on this blog carved out for such end-of-year reflections. I’ve written…
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An Unhurried Holiday Season
As December begins, I am choosing to be intentional about how I want this season to feel for us. If I can use one word to describe our overall approach to Christmas this year, I would choose: unhurried. Unhurried for social events. Unhurried for gifts. Intentional in connecting. Intentional in just being. After the last…
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How I’m coping with Seasonal Affective Disorder
I am a lover of all seasons, but as long as I could remember, I have always struggled with the dreary darkness of November here in Canada. The lack of daylight, the gloomy skies and the bone-chilling cold are but a bleak reminder of the long winter ahead of us for the next five months.…
My Turquoise Bag 