I had always been terrified of giving birth. As someone who shrieked when my Dad dabbed my knee scrape with a cotton pad soaked in rubbing alcohol, I could not even imagine what giving birth would feel like. “What was the pain like?” I would […]

This post has been a long time coming – a result of thoughts that have been mulling around in my brain for a while now. I wrote it in fits and starts, still struggling to squeeze time in to write in the crevasses of the […]

For those who were wondering why my previous post on women in ministry was password-protected, I initially wrote down some unfiltered thoughts to give to someone at church who had asked for my opinion, and didn’t know if I should make it public just yet. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hi friends, I find it ironic that I am writing about the work we do in a time when work as we know it has been completely upended. But even more so, it forces us to ask the questions of what we deem as success, […]

I met Jeff on a FB live we did together for Science Careers on the real life of a scientist. His piece had been about reading fiction; mine was about coffee breaks. About a month later, I find out that he’s doing a passion project […]

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 […]