Almost two months after my return home for the holidays, I look back on that week as a dream of sorts - it felt oh-so-normal to be back, but now it's as though I never was. It was as though I had never been gone as soon as the plane touched down, and thus began [...]
I had some free time between shifts at work just before my mini winter vacation in December and decided to use it to go visit R.L. in Ottawa! Obviously, we got to baking right away. I had brought some vegan baked goods with me but one cannot do with only one cookie for oneself [...]
I tiredly landed in Brussels after an amazing last meal in Dublin and 2 hours of sleep. I lugged my luggage across the city, which I found to be a bit... Browner, than others I had landed in (the splashes of colour would come). I found my way to G.M., who was working, so I [...]
A series about the ways I work towards being cognizant through decisions that make me more mentally engaged with various facets of my day-to-day life. Cognizance (noun): Awareness, realization, notice, knowledge, perception. — On March 1st, I celebrated five years since I started following a veg*an lifestyle! I am not perfectly inside one dietary box, in [...]
For my birthday this year, I requested a book on how to jam/pickle/jelly foods so that I could explore a new hobby that would be mostly inspired by my aunt's amazing grape jelly (family fights almost break out each time she makes a batch). Answering my call for preservation guidance, I received this book:"Preserving by [...]
Two weeks after my inaugural music festival experience, I found myself making another 3-hour road trip towards another weekend filled with musical entertainment; this time, it was from Calgary to Camrose, and it was all about the country music.It was also a lot flatter than B.C.'s Pemberton.After 45 minutes of futile pumping of an air [...]
Two weekends ago, I had the exciting experience of being an attendee at the comeback-year for the Pemberton Music Festival! My first music festival experience.While I missed almost the entire opening night's lineup of artists (including Nine Inch Nails and Cage the Elephant), I was able to catch some serious bass at Bass Camp stage, [...]
One trip down, one to go: With one and a half days of rest following a delayed flight home from God's Country, G and I set out on the road for Seattle!I cannot recall the last time I visited Seattle, and I had never been to Portland before; so with a taste for new adventures [...]
Ah, what a nice couple of weeks it has been!My trip to God's Country was greatly desired and extremely uplifting - but far too short to leave me with anything less than a feeling of having been teased with my favourite fella's company. However, I filled up on hugs and food and photos and filled [...]
