My Witness

As many of you know, my husband Derrick died in 2017.  And as you may have also gathered from my social media post, I have a new person in my life - Bill.  While I do share our adventures, I rarely talk about how this relationship came to be.  But this morning, it showed itself …

Arizona Vanlife

It’s time for a little update that has more information than a social media post. We have settled into Quartzsite, Arizona, for the next few weeks. I post more regularly on Facebook and Instagram than I do here, and I often use the hashtag #vanlife.  Lately, however, I have been watching more closely what gets …

We are all in this together

For the past three weeks I have been living in Crescent City, California.  I needed to stop and re-evaluate how I can make this life sustainable. But also, I need to figure out how do I stay intellectually stimulated and continue to contribute to the personal and professional growth of business, community and myself; on …

Dreams of the Future

In August I sold my home and moved everything I own into an 18ft stepvan. My plan is to travel, at the very least, until next spring.  During that time I need to figure out how I can work and live, while I travel.  I have not written here since the sale, as I was …

Crying at Costco

Today I brought my Actifry back to Costco for refund.  I love how easy it is to return things to Costco. No receipt, no problem; they have a history of every item I have ever purchased.  The data analyst in me, gets the warm fuzzies every time they look up a receipt for me.  This …

Mixed Emotions

Another Father's Day is upon us and Facebook is flooded with well wishes, and the grieving.  Profile pictures are being changed all through my network to, dads and kids. I'm not judging this tradition, I did it myself; every year on Father's Day I changed my profile picture to 2 year old, pudgy faced me; hugging my …

A Good Cry

I am beginning to realize that to be brave you must also be willing to sit on the hotel bathroom floor, tucked in between the toilet and the tub; and cry your heart out.  When you have cried so hard that you have lost the ability to breath, you need to muster up the energy …

Learning to Let Go

I celebrated 20 years with a major Canadian Insurer this January, and 2 weeks later I resigned. As I opened up to Senior Vice Presidents, Co-workers and friends, I heard how brave I must be , to make such life changing decision. To be honest, I don’t see it.  The job was slowing killing me.  …

I Find Myself

Ten years ago, I moved to Moncton; it was a town full of new beginnings and possibly a place to call home.  The concept of home has always been a challenging topic for me.  I have never really found a place I felt home, not in the traditionally sense anyway.  Most of my life, I …

The Illusion of Time

  This beautiful clock was given to me, by a friend, almost 14 years ago.  At the time it was a symbolic offer of the time we had spent together and the unexpected life events, that as friends, we would need to laugh and cry through.  As far as clocks go, this one has never …