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How to Be Beautiful When Even Marilyn Monroe Wasn’t a “10″
Marilyn Monroe, 1953 Even Marilyn Monroe “Is Not Good Looking.” Near the end of Marilyn Monroe’s life, cinematographer Leon Shamroy, was quoted as saying to reporter Ezra Goodman:“When you analyze...
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In Retrospect, a Response to a Poem I Wrote as a Teen
When I think of silence, I think about regret. When I was a kid, I was painfully shy. I remember that when I was in middle school, the other kids in my class thought that I lacked the ability to speak....
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You Can’t Laugh in the Past. You Can’t Run in the Future.
I jump out of bed in the morning, throw on my sneakers, eat half a banana, and before I know it I’m jogging around the seawall. A fluid stream of people crowd my regular route. It’s not raining, so...
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5 Lessons I learned from Kino MacGregor (or how Ashtanga Yoga kicked my butt)
Last weekend I did a 3 day Ashtanga workshop with Kino MacGregor. It was both empowering and embarrassing. Well… maybe “humbling” is a better word. During the intervals between classes, I found myself...
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My Melodramatic Existential Crisis Led Me To Gratitude
I feel like I’m having an existential crisis. I spend a lot of time around numbered lists that tell me what I need to be doing in order to be happy. But… what does it mean to be happy? Have you ever...
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I’m 25 Now! That’s a Milestone, Right?
Monday was my birthday. I turned 25 years old and it was quite the day. Okay, as the day approached I actually felt a small tug of impending doom. I was afraid that I hadn’t accomplished anything yet…...
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Lucid in Time: Reflections After 90 Minutes in a Float Tank
Several months ago (in November…) I won a free float at the float house courtesy of the CEOs of the company that I work for. For months and months I put off going. Why? Because I was terrified....
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Deciphering the End Goal – A Not So Secret Confession
I love to work. In fact, I might even have an obsession. Lately this obsession has gotten a little bit out of control. I have felt weighed down (and stressed, quite frankly) with the amount of work...
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When Your Mind is a Rubik’s Cube
Every time I start to feel overwhelmed/discouraged I do the same thing. I break down my life, organize it into pretty little boxes, then move the boxes around like a rubik’s cube until I discover the...
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Moving Day! (I don’t have the time to write this right now, but I’m writing...
I’m moving tomorrow. As I write this I am sitting in the Breka Bakery on Davie street — with a giant to-do list that I don’t really have enough time to do — feeling a little disoriented, a little...
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I can’t control everything, but I can control ‘some’ things – My Thought...
You can’t control everything in your life, but you can control some things. Those are the things that matter. They are the only point of focus that matters. This thought exploded into my consciousness...
View ArticleA 1000 year old tree called Opa and a Question: Why do we need breakthroughs?
What is a breakthrough? For me the stages of personal evolution ebb and flow between breakthrough and breakdown; exhaustion and stimulation; fear and bravery; certainty and doubt; confidence and...
View ArticleWhat I learned at the National Voice Intensive about ‘Joy’
I arrived at the voice intensive believing that I had to push myself through a concrete wall in order to reach ‘belonging.’ I understand something different now. Now I understand that all I have to do...
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I’m learning how to look through my own eyes.
For four years I have been grinding away – throwing letters plucked from my computer – at a boulder I thought was blocking me from success; from happiness. I would wake up in the morning, and work....
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Outside the Lines – An Unexpected Performance of a Spoken Word Poem
I’ve been trying my very best to remind myself that I don’t actually ever know what is going to happen next. I don’t know that this next email is going to be a rejection (although I did receive three...
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Books for Personal Impact: Suggestions from my bookshelf
I’m a pretty avid reader. I’ve been keeping a detailed reading record since 2006, and although my taste has changed since then, my thirst for knowledge has not. Pass me on the street, and I’ll almost...
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The evolution of my core-desired feelings, and two new words for 2016.
I want to write about passion. What is it? Where, inside of us, does it live? Is it necessary? I write these questions because I need to give myself a running start. Asking questions, for me, is the...
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In June I started working on my first short story in 5 years. I REALLY wanted...
I’ve always wanted to be a writer. I started learning how to read English when I was six (I was brought up French, so had a late start), and by the time I was seven I felt like I knew something about...
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I’ve carried my laptop like a heart from cafe to cafe – Explorations into...
I had a lot of plans for this first day of 2016. I didn’t do any of them. I’d planned to wake up early, set some intentions with some girlfriends, jump in the ocean, and then dance on the beach. It...
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An evening at the Kaya Mayla Bistro
Last Wednesday, I went to Kaya Mayla Bistro with YVR Foodies. Before delving in to my experience at the restaurant, I’d like to tell you about YVRFoodies. They are a chapter of YVRbloggers, who I first...
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