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A response to Chipperish Media’s Awegasm Podcast:

https://chipperish.com/2018/09/21/awegasm-2-awed-by-nature/

Nature. It’s that green stuff outside! Right now, where I live – It’s mostly white. Yay for the first real snow fall of the holiday season!

Nature has always been close to my heart. The first 7 years of my life were spent in a city environment, but I grew up with two parents who took us…

When I first heard that a re-make of Ghostbusters would feature an all-female cast, my first reaction was: “This movie sounds great”. This reaction was largely due to the participating female actresses [Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones] who I have a hard time imagining being bad in this (or pretty much any other) project.

*Sidenote – It was also recently announced…

A response to Chipperish Media’s Awegasm Podcast:

https://chipperish.com/2018/09/07/awegasm-1-awed-by-magic/

What is magic? 

In this podcast episode, Dr. Kelly Jones & Noelle LaCroix  talk about magic being many things: inspiration, wonder, vulnerability, non-coincidences, and more. There was a lot discussed that resonated with me, but if I’m talking about magic, I will have to make my podcast…

Archived and Never Posted (until now): February 2018 Reflections

I made a promise to myself that I would try to write approximately every month going forward. I figure that writing every day wouldn’t be good; a lot of days end up being very similar, and there would really be nothing to say. Once a week is better, but it still seems like not much could happen between one piece of writing and the next. Once a month seems perfect. Enough things can happen in the…

So, I just watched Thor: Ragnarok, and man do I have some things to say. Okay I don’t have that many things to say but I did say “some”, and not “a lot of”, so here are just a few things, I guess. Taika Waititi – The writer/director/actor of “What We Do in the Shadows” along with Jemaine Clement – is the director of this film and man, it shows.  Like, in the best way possible. The film doesn’t…

New Beginnings & #MeToo

As October comes to a close, and the weather starts to get serious about showing us some cold days, I have few things on my mind. I don’t know what it is about the arrival of fall, but it always feels like the real start of the year for me. It could be simply that school starts up again in the fall, (this happens to be my very first year of not having classes to go to), but I think it feels like…

Yep, that is the name of my soul-crushing diagnosis. Please forgive the dramatics but I’m currently feeling very frustrated. For the past few years, every so often I would experience an allergic reaction immediately following a workout (usually a run). With the combined facts of  having a mother who has allergies to nearly every plant-based protein under the sun (and a few very severe ones), and…

  Sometimes one night is all you need. One night to experience the fresh autumn air, the colour of the leaves, and the calmness that comes with being lakeside. I was offered such an opportunity this past weekend, and seized this opportunity with enthusiasm.   Cozy fire burning upon our arrival. Late night BBQ by the light of a supermoon. A rainy Sunday morning. These two knuckeheads. Chimney…

Camping in Algonquin Park

When I was a kid, my parents would take us camping every summer. Since then, I’ve always found a campground to be my happy place. They took us to a lot of different parks around Ontario, and some beyond. I still have some to cross off the list, but here’s where I’ve been so far: Algonquin Achray  Canisbay Lake Lake of Two Rivers Mew Lake Arrowhead Balsam Lake Bon Echo Emily Killarney Killbear…