The air turning brisk this past week was a sure sign of the season turning to fall, as was the official month turning to October as of today. “I think fall is my favorite month of the year,” I commented to Peter as we walked […]

Earth in its elemental form is smooth, shiny wet and a motley of muted colors. The Tawas lake bed I spent the morning picking up rocks from the sandbed, turning them over in my hand as I waded ankle-deep in the cool lake water. It’s […]

It is a Saturday morning in February. The flakes are coming down in steady streams of white and the only sign of life outside are little figurines of dog walkers making their way through this snowstorm. My husband is lying supine on our couch, engrossed […]

Marriage is on the decline, they say. According to Pew Research Center, 39% of respondents believe marriage is obselete and 1 in 4 of today’s young adults may never marry based on current trends. “Getting married huh,” was the response of my senior PhD student […]

Hello world! It feels like I’m somewhat emerging from a period of non-writing hibernation. There’s too much to say about what’s been going on in my world the past few months – my existential crisis about being in year 4 of my PhD and wishing […]

“Vivienne?” the voice is both foggy and tinny at the same time, coming at me from some part of this white metal cylinder that currently encases my body. “Yes?” I raise my voice back at the white metal cylinder, hoping it can hear me above […]

Hi friends 🙂 I don’t know about you, but when Christmas comes around each year, it brings me back to memories of Christmases past. This Christmas, I write to you from an AirBnB in Denver, Colorado. It’s 9:43a.m. and the house is quiet as my […]

This week has been an exciting one indeed, with the first shipments of the vaccine arriving in Canada and the unprecedented in the history of science and medicine materializing before our eyes: a vaccine developed in just 18 months. But with all the hubbub and […]

To all my American friends, happy Thanksgiving! I hope it has been a restful weekend so far, one full of the ordinary yet abundant blessings that fill each of our lives. Meanwhile, the weather has been getting winter-like over here in Canada. I’ve been resorting […]

I had never bought a stuffed toy in my life. The practical woman my mother was, she taught us that you only buy things you absolutely need or that serve some sort of useful function. Stuffed toys fell into neither of those categories, so as […]