Morgan’s Point
The women in my family know heartbreak like the words to a favourite song. It seems to be written in our DNA, part of the marrow of our bones. So too is the ability to breathe in the beauty of each fragile moment. We are nature lovers who seek solace [...]
Full Moon in May
Mother Moon, do you recall at the beginning of this year, when I brought my children out into our snow-covered postage stamp backyard to meet you? We performed our first moon ritual as a family, with both mamas lending their feminine energy to our circle. Each of us wrote a [...]
Getaway
Long before my life...what's the phrase I want to use here? Caved in? Fell apart? Transformed? Long before everything changed, I'd agreed to house and pet sit for my dear friends Nat and Mike in the east end of Toronto. That's where I am now; laying in their bed, the [...]
Lilac Wine
My grandmother had twelve children, eleven of whom survived through infancy. She lived with an alcoholic husband, and dealt with all of the hardships that come with such a life; poverty, violence, heartache, fear, before finally realizing her power. Each May, she's in my thoughts. Her birthday was the 17th [...]
Single Mom, Day 1
Wednesday. My first day back in the house, solo with the kids. He was there. I hadn't counted on that, and so I sat at the breakfast bar, head in my laptop, churning with a mixture of adoration and devastation. I held myself together until he walked out the door. [...]
The First Day of the Rest of My Life
Tuesday. When I imagine this day, I imagine sleeping in. Instead, my internal alarm wakes me at 6:30 in the morning, so I sit up in bed and write a chapter of the YA novel I'm drafting. The sound of the rain on the windows is so familiar. This is [...]