So, it's been a minute. I've still been writing, but not in formats that seemed ripe to publish. Recently I made a new friend, Mary, who introduced me to a fun challenge: #1000wordsofsummer. Best selling author, Jami Attenberg, started a challenge back in 2018 to inspire her writing community to write 1000 words per day, … Continue reading #1000wordsofsummer
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Mini-Slice: Synchronicity
Call me crazy, but I believe in synchronicity. Those unexplained moments of alignment or coincidence. A sign from the universe or God, from the ancestors or the angels, that They are listening and you’re on the right path. Where you belong. I had just returned from a truly incredible weekend away. A mini-escape from the … Continue reading Mini-Slice: Synchronicity
Mini-Slice: Kitchen Hockey
Inspired by my daily writing challenge around "a funny incident." My mom didn’t iron. And I have absolutely followed in her footsteps. As children, we went shopping. A lot. In fact, it was likely my mom’s biggest hobby – happily taking a mini road trip the 45-60 minutes to get to a mall and browsing … Continue reading Mini-Slice: Kitchen Hockey
Mini-Slice: Red Pleather
Inspired by my 20-minute writing exercise around "an embarrassment." After I finished my university years in Madison, Wisconsin, I relocated to the San Francisco Bay area to start my first job. It was a time of firsts. Of growing up and adventure – but also of loneliness and feeling untethered. Developing independence is a necessary … Continue reading Mini-Slice: Red Pleather
Mini-Slice: My 14-Year-Old Little Girl
My daughter, Emaline, is fourteen years and 5 months old today. She is a smart, healthy, 9th grader. Honestly, high school has been a breeze as compared with the transition to middle school. Augmented by the ongoing pandemic and the desperate desire to feel alive and push boundaries, she and her friends made some unwise … Continue reading Mini-Slice: My 14-Year-Old Little Girl
Mini-Slice: Friends-giving
Inspired by my 20-minute writing exercise around a "memorable holiday." Friends-giving. This is a term that has been adopted by the masses but especially those celebrating a harvest holiday either in a new place or seeking ways to build their own traditions, with a chosen family. When we first relocated to Toronto, Ontario, we learned … Continue reading Mini-Slice: Friends-giving
Mini-Slice: Music Lover
Inspired by a writing challenge around hobbies: how you got them and any that have carried from childhood to adult-life. After stepping away from many of my hobbies during the COVID-19 pandemic – mostly involuntarily due to shut-downs or family responsibilities, I have a heightened appreciation for their value and necessity. One hobby that I’ve … Continue reading Mini-Slice: Music Lover
Mini-Slice: A Betrayal
Inspired by my 20-minute writing exercise today around the theme: “Detail a situation where you felt betrayed.” Betrayal: the sense of being harmed by the intentional actions or omissions of a trusted person. Luckily betrayal isn’t an emotion I’ve felt often. In fact, to start this writing exercise, I even resorted to looking it up … Continue reading Mini-Slice: A Betrayal
Mini-Slice: An Accident
Inspired by my 20-minute writing exercise today around the theme: "Recall a time when you've been in an accident." It was the summer before I started university and I was working at a resort in a small town about 20 minutes from my childhood home. The resort and town were very evocative of Dirty Dancing … Continue reading Mini-Slice: An Accident
Mini-Slice: Lost
Inspired by my 20-minute writing exercise today around the theme: "If you can delete a memory, what will it be? Why?" It was a perfect summer Saturday – Labour Day weekend. Tim was working and I had planned to take my 3 young boys, plus one add-on friend (for good measure) to Centre Island for … Continue reading Mini-Slice: Lost
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