A few weeks ago I got onto the topic of children with someone. After talking about their kids for a bit they asked me if I had any kids to which I laughed (too loudly) and said no over and over again. The person said I had a pretty extreme reaction and the first thing …
As you may remember I was accepted into the HamilTEN Festival earlier this year for the play I wrote, Beep, a short and personal play about my mom’s death and how people who have never dealt with death react around people who have. It’s a very important play to me for obvious reasons and getting to …
I’ve mentioned a number of times on here that I sometimes feel invisible. Sometimes I feel like it’s something I’m doing to myself, sometimes it just seems to be who I am as a person. I fade away in certain situations, I get forgotten. It happens, but I’ve been trying to make sure I don’t …
Sometimes it’s hard to feel good about yourself, particularly appearance-wise. I’ve always had trouble with my appearance, though it’s definitely gotten better from when I was young and was constantly scrutinizing every flaw only I could see in the mirror.
So here comes a small change that maybe doesn’t warrant a blog post, but here it is. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking with this blog, and all my other blogs. I try to post on each of them regularly but it just doesn’t happen and I know it sounds stupid, but running a …
My dad likes to listen to A.M. radio, one station in particular that plays all the old songs from the 60s and 70s that rarely come on anymore. On the weekends they’ll play a half hour of Leonard Cohen, followed by a half hour of Tony Bennett, and ending with a half hour of The …
I bet you all thought I wasn’t going to write a blog post this week, part of me thought I might not either. But I’m kind of forcing myself to right now, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing but is taking a lot of effort all the same.
Content Warning: Brief mention of sexual assault. On Friday a woman in my city organized a hike on a nearby trail as a type of protest. The week before another woman had been hiking the trail when she heard a man call to her. The woman was then struck by the man and sexually assaulted …
This past weekend I volunteered at the Grit Lit Festival, a local literary festival that celebrates Canadian authors. I’d gone for fun for a few years and absolutely loved listening to authors discuss and speak about their works and other issues, and obviously finding (and buying) new books to read. So after getting some emails …
This past weekend was the seventh annual HamilTEN Festival and I was lucky enough to get in again. I struggled a lot this year about what to write. My play last year wasn’t a comedy per se but it had funny moments and comedies generally do very well in the festival, but I didn’t feel like …
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