It’s been a slow season of writing for me. My past few months have not been my normal (have they been anyone’s really?), and I’m still getting back into a rhythm. But, this past weekend, during a call with one of my girlfriends, we started […]

A bit late, I know, considering we’re already a week into February. But a lot of Jan was filled with life changes, including moving back to Montreal – and so now that I’m firmly in routine (oh how I love routines!), this is my first […]

This piece is more a light-hearted reflection on the four months I recently spent in Strasbourg, France. I was there for a research collaboration, but received a cross-cultural education at the same time. Here is a collection of vignettes (including funny and embarrassing things that […]

Time is an elusive concept. It’s passing constantly, yet it’s so hard to feel. It’s like lying in the grass, trying to feel the Earth rotate. When changes are both small and constant, we can’t grasp them. But watching a sunset, for example, we can […]

Wow, 2019 is almost coming to an end, and so is my time here in Strasbourg. The Christmas markets just started this past weekend and I’m already getting into the Christmas spirit! By the way, for those of you who haven’t seen my FB post, […]

I was over at the Pike’s last Saturday night, the missionary family from Florida that moved here a couple months ago. The husband and teenage son were out for soccer and it was just the wife and daughter who would be home, so of course […]

I woke up one morning in the aftermath of one of those four-hour group lab dinners and knew I had to write this post. So, I rode my bike out in the drizzling rain to the only cafe open at 5:30a.m., set up camp with […]

I’m engrossed with Azra Raza’s new release ‘The First Cell’. For those of you who love Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, Raza writes in a similar style – poetic, beautiful, moving prose but with medical rigorous language as someone who is well-read in the field. […]

Read the preceding posts in the Micah6.8 series here: Part 1: never productive enough, Part 2: the food we eat. It was hard for me to write this post. Ironically, it had to do with wanting to make it beautiful, perfect, have things fit together […]

Hi friends! Lots of changes have happened over the past 2 months – August was crazy in trying to get everything ready for the 2 week vacation and the subsequent move to Strasbourg, where I currently am. But it happened, and life slowed down dramatically […]