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putter
How has your weekend been? My living room is flooded with sunshine, making this couch even more of an anchor. I’m simply lapping it up. It’s been a weekend of puttering and making. While there was no...
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my lately
Waking to the sound of birds hungry for spring. Lately, these have been coffee mornings and tea afternoons. Salad has returned to the table with an unquenchable longing for greens. Traipsing through...
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weekend bits
You know you’re firmly under Bunner’s spell when you call ahead on Saturday morning and reserve a bunch of muffins with your credit card to avoid the disappointment of finding they’re sold out....
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Happy Mother’s Day!
As any mum of older children will tell you, convening your brood takes some decent amount of planning (translation: text marathoning). I hopped on a train and a bus to see my mighty Number Three on...
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bali, blooms and salted chocolate
Trip-planning, blossom-coveting and cookie-making — that pretty much sums up the better part of my weekend. I’ve been planning, coaxing and writing a trip into existence. Observing, dissolving into...
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Sunday Slowly
Early morning yoga, before tea, before the distraction of a kitchen that needed cleaning, before the phone might ring, before the pull of the day … And later, a bowl filled with crisp, tangled, raw...
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Toronto Islands retreat
I have a week off work and I’ve chosen to focus on self-care each day. Part of that involves saying yes to only those requests that my heart has no battle with and my mind, no struggle. Because for me,...
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the green below the city
Running through the ravine system, the Beltline Trail in Toronto is my green refuge below the city. No matter how many times I get on the trail—at any access point—something new captures my attention....
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Coconut-lovers raw energy bars
I’m often on the hunt for a great-tasting, gluten and dairy-free snack that delivers an energy boost. Something that lifts me but lets me down gently. Refined sugar and I are not good friends (not that...
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weekending
This afternoon, I set out to roam the woods nearby and the sky went from cotton wool clouds to broody within ten minutes. But I persevered despite ominous clouds hovering; not much comes between me and...
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sunday slowly
It hasn’t stopped raining since yesterday. And although I haven’t checked, I suspect there’s been an explosion of garden growth. It’s also unseasonably cold (how quickly we become attached to warm...
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my lately
First peonies unfurled: the gasp is never less intense. Gluten and dairy-free choco chunk cookies: the thrill lives on. Breakfast bowls: fruit-filled to the brim, sweet and tart and minty. Reading:...
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peony perfection
There’s something completely dislocating about having flu symptoms in June when you’ve said goodbye (and good riddance) to a Northern winter. Lying in bed with a piercingly sore throat and all the...
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into the weekend
Slowly, this cold begins to budge. The rain falls steadily and everything I can view from these windows is verdant, lush. Maybe tomorrow, when my energy picks up and something other than pillow and...
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truth
source: Sister Outsider, “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”Filed under: Life Tagged: Audre Lorde, Health and Well-being, Inspiration, Inspirational Quotes, Life, Photography,...
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happy 1st anniversary, zoë and aaron!
Last year, the days and weeks leading up to my daughter Zoë’s wedding at Berkeley Fieldhouse, passed in a blur of mounting excitement, planning (and Plan B-ing), copious phone calls and incredulity...
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weekending
By mid-week it was time to call in the big guns to adios a miserable cold turned sinus infection with an unstoppable cough. Antibiotics are never a fun experience (hello acidophilus, meet what used to...
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flora
This weekend’s garden walk: pause … breathe … squeal … snap! Bloom time is fleeting, evanescent, in Southern Ontario. So moments such as these are best spent lingering, savoring, locking their clarity...
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bali | on my mind
I’ll be spending October and November in Bali and the Gili Islands. So I’ve been collecting photos—visuals that breathe life into my trip, helping to lift the planning off the page. These are some of...
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sunday slowly
Rain upon rain upon rain. Plans made and re-imagined, phone chats with friends, heaps of fruit and tea on refill, the cocooned comfort of a bath robe, and bare feet on cool wooden floors, muffins from...
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