It’s been a while since I’ve been here. Here being: alone, at a coffee shop, headphones on, writing. As you can probably imagine, having a full-time job with two kids doesn’t afford myself too much time to write. But here I am, in the early […]

I defended my PhD yesterday! Surreal that in a couple of hours, the phase of life you’ve known over the past 8 years could suddenly end. I know people had warned me the end feels anti-climatic for all the moments during the PhD you spend […]

Today marked the first rain of spring. Peter got his wisdom teeth out this morning and I finished my last week of in vivo experiments. It feels like the beginning of something new, the start of a new season. Tomorrow, I give my research seminar […]

I think I’m not alone when I say we want to live “the slow life”. The question I would pose next would be, “Well, what does that mean?” We have dreams of the slow life being lived out on a farm. It seems the most […]