“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 […]

I can be way too perfectionistic in my writing. It’s why it takes me a long while to write these posts. It’s why I don’t post as often as I used to. But it’s something I’m trying to overcome by doing more of these “rambles”, […]

This is the 6th installation of the micah 6.8 series, in which I explore how faith influences our everyday life. If you haven’t read the other installations, you can start here: Part 1: never productive enough, Part 2: the food we eat, Part 3: the beauty we create, […]

I was waiting to write a post that was more well thought-out and structured. Something that could get published somewhere important.  But a few days ago, I was reading through the old posts on my blog and realized I used to do a lot more […]

Hi friends!  This week was my first full week back at work – you don’t realize how much you’ve been sitting during pandemic, until your feet are sore at the end of the day and you’re wondering why.  I don’t know how things are where […]

This is the 5th installation of the micah 6.8 series, in which I explore how faith influences our everyday life. If you haven’t read the other installations, you can start here: Part 1: never productive enough, Part 2: the food we eat, Part 3: the beauty we […]