Love Letter to an Island

Love Letter to an Island

Love Letter to an Island was originally written for Latitudes Magazine in March 2016. The Snuneymuxw First Nation consider Saysutshun Newcastle Island a sacred healing ground; some New Age types have suggested it might be a “vortex”—a place of powerful spiritual...
The Gifts of Giving

The Gifts of Giving

In the summer of 2011, I’d been off antidepressants for more than a year, cigarette-free for eight months and had been building a toolkit of practices to help me find and maintain inner peace. I read about the 29-Day Giving Challenge, based on the book 29 Gifts: How a...
The Bracelet

The Bracelet

“Are you insane?” I heard my friend Tom, his voice rising at the end of the sentence, his ever-so-slightly sibilant “s” dragging out ‘insane’. I could see his eyebrows raised above those tortoiseshell coke-bottle glasses, that familiar look of incredulity. “I mean,...

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