Two unexpected things happened while Joe and I were in Seattle: We visited a store called Uncle Ike’s Pot Shop, and I enjoyed watching a football game. Quick backstory –… Read more 48 Hours in Seattle (Not Your Typical City Guide) →
A few minutes before our wedding ceremony (one year and two weeks ago), Joe called his brother Nick, who had married his wife Caroline a couple months earlier, and asked… Read more On Marriage, Year One: Teamwork, Dirty Socks, and a Magic Phrase… →
Two years ago, after 15 years, the Juno-nominated, Victoria, B.C.-based band Jets Overhead quietly stopped playing together. My friend Adam Kittredge, the band’s former frontman, has since started Thieves, a… Read more Q + A: Musician Adam Kittredge On His New Band Thieves, the Challenges of Artistic Collaboration, + What He Would Tell His 16 Year-Old Self →
Last spring, one of my favourite writers/bloggers/inspirational women Danielle LaPorte, best-selling author of The Fire Starter Sessions and The Desire Map, announced she was starting a magazine. And calling for submissions.… Read more My Almost-Published Love Story →
Last year, I was introduced to the work of a really talented Canadian artist. Her name is Andie. And her paintings are phenomenal. As some of you know, I spent… Read more Q + A: Visual Artist Andie Nicole On Cultivating Creativity + Her Version of Magic →
A goat herder in Bagan, Myanmar. A subway commuter in Busan, Korea. A child walking on water (or so it appears) in Kota Kinabalu, Borneo. This is the work of… Read more Q + A: Travel Photographer Peter DeMarco on Following Your Vision, Befriending Nomads, and the Most Dangerous Thing He’s Done for an Image →
“. . . I want to know about blindness. I want to ask poetry where the birds went when they disappeared and how it was they reappeared in cursive loops… Read more Q + A: Eve Joseph on The Irrational Madness of Writing →
Before blowing on his first french horn in a 7th-grade music class in Toronto, Chris Seligman–keyboardist and french horn player for the Canadian Indie Pop group Stars–had no interest… Read more Q + A: Stars Keyboardist Chris Seligman on Band Personalities, His Pre-Show Rituals, and the Biggest Lesson He’s Learned in the Industry →
