Tripping my way through life in the 21st century.
"The trees are about to show us, how lovely it is to let the dead things go"-Unknown Summer certainly took a sharp turn here this year. Within 48 hours we went from sunny and 35 degrees to rainy and 15. The sun is starting to set earlier and is gone behind the horizon by 8pm.... Continue Reading →
“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”- Edgar Allan Poe Is it possible to have a third or quarter life crisis? With the looming completion of another turn around the sun for me, sleep has become somewhat of a commodity. I've found myself laying in bed for hours, thinking about any,... Continue Reading →
The weather here can be temperamental sometimes and the winters are long. They are cold, and dark and really take a toll on me by the time they end. We get thunder storms that come through and blacken the skies. They destroy our crops and homes with large hail. Sometimes I wonder why I like... Continue Reading →
It's Fathers Day here in Canada. It's a day that we take to celebrate all of the amazing men in our lives that choose to take on one of life's most difficult tasks.... Raising the next generation. This day has for the last few years... been tough and I really can't help but wonder if... Continue Reading →
Time for some real talk. This will be a long post! This past year, the topic of mental illness and mental health has been brought front and center on both sides of the fence; with some using it to justify their arguments one way or the other for various lock down measures, or lack there... Continue Reading →
There are two things that I miss about Estonia. All of my wonderful friends, and predictable seasons. Saturday it was 23 degrees. Then 5cm of snow and 0 degrees on Sunday with the rest of the week looking to be about the same. Having grown up here, I'm used to not really truly getting a... Continue Reading →
"You are all the colours in one. At full brightness"- Theodore Finch Normally I don't tend to dive into young adult novels as I find them to be kind of cliché and the "woe is me" feeling to be somewhat drab. This book came up on a Reddit thread and I figured I would give... Continue Reading →
“I am for who I was in the beginning but now is present and I exist in the future.”-Frank McCourt I'm not sure where to begin with this book so I guess I'll start by saying, next to The Gulag Archipelago, this is the second saddest book that I've ever read. Angela's Ashes is a... Continue Reading →
It feels like it's been a lifetime since you left us here. And life has finally started to feel like it has some semblance of normalcy in it again. I've settled back into my life here in the big city and I've had more good days than bad for the first time in a long... Continue Reading →
“Anyone who tells a lie has not pure heart, and cannot make good soup.”― Ludwig van Beethoven I love soup. This is no secret. Anyone who has every spoken to me about food will know this. In the last 6 months, soup has also become a very big part of my diet and I don't think... Continue Reading →
My Avocado Toasts 