"Friends don't let friends do Ironmans..."
The texts went something like this: Me: Don't be mad. I just did something dumb. Husband: Please tell your friends that there is an old...
Apologies to my future (invincible) self
I am a liar. But not the way you might think. I lie to myself, to my future self. All. The. Time. Let me explain. Here is how my mornings...
Being a mom is awesome (except when it's really not)
I recently decided to only drink wine on Friday and Saturday nights. I decided this on a Sunday night, with a (large) glass of wine in...
Very Bad Decisions (make all the best stories)
Every January, I get a deep, inexplicable urge to do something incredibly stupid. No, wrong word. Incredibly exciting. Epic. Adventurous....
The things I wish I'd known about cancer
As one of our Ottawa media darlings revealed a shocking leukemia diagnosis today, I was swept back to the moment of my own leukemia...
Where is your mind?
Chances are, you aren't fully paying attention to me right now. It's OK, I know it's nothing personal. We are an attention-deficient...
The Fear of Missing Out
For most of my adult life, I have been in turmoil. And no, it wasn’t from a terrible trauma (my homeschooled, freewheeling, mountain...
No Capes
Over the course of my cancer treatment and recovery, people have called me superwoman, amazing, incredible, inspiring—take your pick of...
Instant Healing
In this culture of instant gratification, constant online communication and an alarmingly shrinking attention span (now apparently less...
Monkey Mind
I have been teaching a lot of the quieter yoga styles lately, which means more space in between poses to just sit in the silence. And for...
