Little footsteps walking around the room, sweet voices calling out your name, imaginative stories, laughter, giggling, whining, and from time to time—crying. These are the things a teacher hears every day. Hi! I am…
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Do the opposite of what you feel like doing. This has been my advice to myself. You feel like sleeping longer? Get up. You feel like staying in your pyjamas? Get dressed. You feel…
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Home. It seems to have been on our minds a lot lately. Amber talks about the uncertainty that comes with living in Yellowknife – the choice between the freedom that comes with living in a…
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Yellowknife. This middle of nowhere, naturally stunning, slapped up city, which is only a city in name and not by population. What is a girl like me, supposed to do with a place like…
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[This post is inspired by this article about living abroad.] Do you ever wish you could CSI a moment in time? Like if you lost your keys, you could use an app that looks back…
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As a particularly cynical 14-year-old (is there any other kind?) I remember telling people that you should always expect the worst in any situation, because then you’d never be disappointed and there was at least a…
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My youngest daughter Callie turned one last month. Needless to say, time passes unbelievably fast when you have two kids. It feels like she was just a newborn only a couple of months ago. I…
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. ~ The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder I…
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An oldie – This is a song I wrote with a friend of mine, in another life time. Warm me up tea Warm me up tea How hungry I’ve been When lightening strikes twice…
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I am involved in designing costumes for an exciting new work that opened with the Hong Kong Ballet on Friday. It’s a new and very modern interpretation of the classic Bolero, choreographed by Yuh Egami and Ricky…