storytelling
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beautiful things to say
Most nights right now, I’m living inside a story about the things we don’t say. I’m working on edits to a novel I wrote this last year about the unspoken things people carry. Over the weekend, I saw my extended… Continue reading
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for frank n dolly
In the 2018 season at Stratford, The Rocky Horror Show became a wickedly talented, dear friend that met me at the door 14 different nights throughout a tough year and wrapped me up in a big, ‘ol campy, glam-rock blanket… Continue reading
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the soldier
Don’t worry mother, your daughter is a soldier. I wish I could say it was a declaration of bravery. I’m sure that’s what I thought when I wrote it down in my journal in 2014. I was just beginning to… Continue reading
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summer of ‘26
I’ll be skipping hot girl summer in exchange for…of course I have lines on my face look what joy has made of me summer/ yes only when I mean it summer/ write with my feet up on the porch summer/… Continue reading
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cosmic parable
Once in a while a cosmic question is asked as souls gather before the beginning. The collective consciousness asks: Who will awaken us? Who will hold up the mirror to what we’ve been afraid to face, who will stir the sleeping… Continue reading
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everything beautiful
This morning, on the first day of Pride, I stood on the corner of a busy downtown street with a throng of staff, watching the flags be raised for Pride Month and Indigenous History Month. And I had a brief… Continue reading
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they were always golden
I got to hold babies and pet all the dogs. I got to fold warm laundry. Blow out birthday candles. Take naps. I got to walk down ordinary streets and notice beautiful things. Flower gardens. A child drawing galaxies in… Continue reading
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dear sugar
Some of you know Cheryl Strayed as the writer behind Wild, but before that she wrote an anonymous advice column called Dear Sugar — a place where people brought their hardest, most tangled truths, and Sugar met them with a… Continue reading
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how do you love…
The first time we talked to Gloria back in 2012, the sky had already made up its mind to fall apart. And, in our own way, I suppose we had too. I remember how far out we’d parked, at the edge… Continue reading
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the next big thing
Yesterday I had lunch with a woman who, last year, walked away from a 25‑year corporate career – just a few years shy of the golden pension so many of us hang on for. She realized she didn’t have any… Continue reading
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