Forget about Paying it Forward. What about Paying Attention? A few weeks ago I was at a gathering with a few expats, where pizza was consumed. We were using scissors to cut the pizza (Swedish pizzas are super thin and rarely presliced) and I noticed that our hostess needed them. So I grabbed the scissors…
The Government of Canada makes sure that Canadian artists are represented in television and movies. And I can totally tell when there is Canadian content. I watched The Vow tonight and even though I already know that Rachel McAdams is Canadian, the second that they listed Wendy Crewson, I also knew that it was filmed…
My battery was draining too quickly on my new smartphone and a solution I found suggested restricting the background data on the apps. It works and this morning I realized I need to do the same thing with my brain. Since I decided to really commit myself to writing for real, including this blog, some…
A friend is moving to Nepal for 8 months and then to England for grad school. She just put her life in a storage container and it reminded me of all the places I have lived, all the stuff I have sorted discarded sold given away and held onto for some reason. And I look…
The thought occurred to me the other day that I never clarified or explained these mixed emotions for which this website is named. The phrase was “created” after I decided to move to Sweden. I realized that I loved Vancouver and my life there so much that this was a bittersweet move, no matter how…
I know I have been away for a looooong time and I have been trying to get back into the writing “mood”, and to start off with such a depressing subject may concern some people. However, in some ways, and as always, I am doing to this to help other people. I have now been…
