Between one year and forever
“Somewhere between one year and forever” It’s been my standard reponse whenever anyone has asked me how long I plan to stay in Canada. It’s typically accompanied by a non-committal shrug of the...
View Article2020: One foot in front of the other
The turning of a new year is always a funny time. The sun rises and sets just as profoundly on every other day, and yet, something about this particular day causes us to stop and naval gaze a little...
View ArticleGratitude and pumpkin pie
A small confession: my third year in Canada and I haven’t yet developed a taste for turkey and pumkpin pie. Give me a lamb roast and a slice of pavlova any day! But if there’s one Canadian...
View ArticleWalking the Walk
On January 1st 2020, I set out to walk 2020 kilometers in one year as a way to ground myself in a world of uncertainty and turmoil. Little did I know how much more uncertain and tumultous the world...
View ArticleThere’s no place like home
True story: In my younger days I performed in TWO separate school productions of the Wizard of Oz. I have twice stepped into my ruby slippers for costume parties and I have owned the book in both...
View ArticleThe mass humanity clinic
Every four minutes a new person comes over and sits down in the chair across from me. I ask them some pertinent details about themselves and we make a little small talk. I write their name on a card...
View ArticleAdaptation
On my first trip back to Australia in 2019, about 9 months after moving to Canada, I was delighted by one tiny detail; I did not have to pack a power adaptor. At that time, all my electronic devices...
View ArticleThe Heaviness of Catcall Culture
One sunny afternoon in mid-2019, I was walking home from the physiotherapy clinic when I heard a voice shout out from a car, “heyyyyyyy sexy!” I stopped in my tracks, shocked and confused. It’s not...
View ArticleThis doctor’s mental health day
The irony is not lost on me that it was today, the annual Crazy Socks for Docs day, that I found myself sobbing in the shower at the prospect of having to go to work. It’s supposed to be the day that...
View ArticleThe inevitable COVID comeuppance
Well. It turns out the gods of infectious diseases have a pretty twisted sense of humour. I really did not want to get COVID, but I foolishly confessed in public my fleeting hope for teeny tiny...
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