I am eating string cheese while Post Malone’s Circles plays on Spotify. I am safe. My skin is light.Today I am privileged.My daughter asks me why some people hate others simply because of the colour of their skin. “I don’t know,” is the not the only answer I can give her. I explain that ignorance results […]
We are living in interesting times…Smack dab in the middle of a pandemic is a place most of us never expected to be and yet, here we are.Make no mistake. COVID-19 is a threat. But, the hysteria surrounding the pandemic is becoming as dangerous as the virus itself.If we all try to stay calm and […]
After she had spent several hours at the horse barn on a frosty December evening, I offered to make my daughter a hot chocolate to warm her up.Because she has food allergies, making a drink like this for my kiddo is a bit more complicated than simply pouring boiling water over a packet of Carnation […]
One morning when my daughter was 3, she and I were walking along the seashore at low tide, searching for what the waves had brought in.As we stepped carefully around the rocks – our rubber boots sinking into the squishy sand beneath our feet – we discovered seaweed, sand dollars, crabs, sea urchins, periwinkles and […]