April 2nd, 2013 in 30something, adventure, hello universe? I love you, help, here is my heart, i know- we all LOVE him, i may write about the west wing forever, i promise this is cool, i should be a cheerleader, i want this, I'm yoda. Everyone else is a grasshopper, it makes sense to me, it's a good thing, it's a long one (twss), just do what i say, just say yes, karma is going to get you, mindful happiness, school, something I won't forget, sometimes you just have to leap, this one might be my favourite, when i ask you to do things for me 
I have a student in my class, let’s call him Jake. He’s (secretly) one of my favourite students because he tends to see the glass half full and is grumpy in the most endearing way. He struggles socially and spends a lot of recesses with me as he says “I don’t have friends because my brain has a hard time making some”. He has big brown eyes and his shoe laces are always undone. Jake has a lot of anxiety issues and when I have a substitute at school, he’s so worried about me he works in counsellors office to help …READ MORE
December 17th, 2012 in because "guilt" is a dirty word, because US health care makes me sad, confession of the day, friends, here is my heart, i think my sweetness gave you a cavity, I'm yoda. Everyone else is a grasshopper, if you're shallow and you know it clap your hands!, it happened this week, it makes sense to me, lists, love harder, mindful happiness, people i like, top 10 I know I’m not alone in feeling like Life is heavy these days.
I keep trying to find positives, to talk myself up into a good mood- then I feel regretful, as though by marvelling at the deliciousness of french toast or singing to a good song on the radio, I’m not showing enough reverence and respect to how the world currently stands.
To what has happened.
Which then makes me feel guiltier than before.
It’s a vicious cycle of feeling low, then building up to a good mood then feeling guilty about the good mood. Eventually I crawl into …READ MORE
I’m a reader. I read daily, usually after a hot shower when I’m curled up and bed and should be sleeping. As a kid, this was my favourite way to read- gulping in words late at night when my parents had told me to go to bed. The quiet and the darkness allow me to concentrate and dive into books in a way I just can’t do during the day. I love books that engulf me, that have lines so poignant they echo in my insides throughout the day. One of my current favourite reads is “Big Questions from Little …READ MORE
August 30th, 2012 in 30something, I'm yoda. Everyone else is a grasshopper, it makes sense to me, just do what i say, let's still be friends?, oh look! i have opinions., self improvement, something I won't forget, travel, when I go all Dr. Phil on you, who needs a self help book? I want you to think of the bucket list that you have. Whether it’s triumphantly displayed on your blog, written shyly in your journal or catalogued in the recesses of your brain right after the recipe for spinach dip your mother gave you, I want you to rename that list “Things I Wish To Do Sometime Before I Die”.
Not very powerful is it?
When death is your finish line, you’re running the wrong race.
Considering that you are a perishable item with an expiry date, we could go further and rename your bucket list “Things I Wish To Do …READ MORE
June 20th, 2012 in anger and I have sat down for tea, confession of the day, here is my heart, it makes sense to me, it's a long one (twss), oh look! i have opinions., seriously, soapbox, sometimes i get violent, the J.O.B., today i am not funny, when i say it anyway When you think you are casually bringing up the idea of “summer vacation” to a teacher, the reality is you are inadvertently being a douche. Because teachers and summer vacation don’t exist in the way you think they do. Non-teachers assume that teachers work from 9-3pm, get paid fairly and spend large parts of their day doing crafts. We wear witch earrings on Halloween, celebrate Christmas with carols and go on field trips to fun locales. We are rewarded for our pursuits with two months of pure rest and relaxation, where we will jet set the world with our easily …READ MORE
Congratulations. You’ve done it. You’ve accomplished another year in a world that does not rationalize its choices and often hands out victories and successes, heartache and grief in ways that we don’t always understand and with randomness that we often question late at night when we feel most alone.
We tend to only recognize our achievements when someone else gives them value. It’s when we hear the praise of others that we finally give ourselves the pat on the back we’ve been yearning for. It’s when others tell us we have done well that we admit that- yes, we have …READ MORE
May 6th, 2012 in 30something, and now you might know everything, family, i love fragment sentences, I should be sleeping, I'm yoda. Everyone else is a grasshopper, introspection sometimes causes me to drink, it makes sense to me, life lesson, lists, this is where I grew up, this one might be my favourite Growing up, I was friends with two really interesting twins. While I was rocking a mushroom cut and Club Monaco sweatshirt, these two girls were shaving their heads and wearing lots of mesh, camo and elaborate necklaces with snake charms. While my mom gave me tylenol for a headache, their mom practiced Reiki and ancient herbal medicines to curb body pains. My home was a standard homage Pottery Barn, their house was a collection of Star Wars collectibles, exotic pets and crystals the size of pre-schoolers. Sleepovers were an exercise in restraint as I practiced acting nonchalant as they fed …READ MORE
At the beginning of the year I always tell my kids a story of me in university. The story of how after busting my ass, I got 17% on my midterm and my professor scrawled “Great Improvement!” on my paper because it was. Math was foreign to me and that 17% was like a solid A in my math deficient mind and a huge improvement from the secure 6% I had got on my last assignment where my poor professor had taken to just writing smiley faces beside my work. I whooped it up after class, passing that midterm around …READ MORE
March 4th, 2012 in can you tell I've been reading NO FEAR t-shirts?, i complain because I care, introspection sometimes causes me to drink, it happened this week, it makes sense to me, life lesson, oh look! i have opinions., right on my sleeve, soapbox, the J.O.B. Say you are sitting in Starbucks and you see a woman with a stroller who is struggling to open the door.
You have a choice. Either return to your issue of Glamour newspaper while using your stealth peripheral vision to see who goes to help the woman or you go and hold the door open for the woman.
Say you decide to help the woman. Your morals, your belief in how to behave in any situation, requires you to act. She will say thank you, you will reply with “Oh, it’s no problem!” but inside you are secretly full of glee at …READ MORE
February 27th, 2012 in books i'm not writing, confession of the day, hello universe? I love you, help, i complain because I care, i think this would make her proud, is it weird this makes me cry?, it happened this week, it makes sense to me, jumping off bridges, just do what i say, just say yes, life lesson, something I won't forget, the J.O.B., the title says it all, things I don't say outloud, top 10, when i ask you to do things for me, when i say it anyway I drove home today with fingers itching to type this post. Ahh, so this is what it’s like to be inspired!
On a recent road trip, I listened to The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die (STAY WITH ME, NOW) and it blew my mind in the way that only having someone articulate the things you already believe deep down inside but don’t know how to say does. The secrets are based on interviews with people who were nominated all across Canada and the United States due to the wisdom, happiness and contentment they displayed to those around …READ MORE
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quote of the moment "Once you start googling 'unlikely animal friendships', life gets better."
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