Last year I spoke about how important representation is to feeling confident enough to express your own identity or grey areas. During the time when I was beginning to talk more about my own grey areas in 2020, I watched Netflix’s The Prom. And that’s where I first saw Ariana DeBose. The Prom cast two …
I’ve received some really kind messages on my previous post: The Most Vulnerable Thing I’ve Put on the Internet from a few weeks ago. In fact, it’s my most-viewed post since the one that randomly blew up about Canadian Speedskating (hallo Dutch followers!). However, there are two responses I’ve heard a lot when sharing about …
Earlier this year, I took to the airwaves and submitted a voice note to the Girl on Girl Podcast, which had inspired me with an interview with Humberly Gonzalez from Ginny & Georgia. Initially, I clung to the idea of anonymity and starting writing the piece below. But, ultimately, I decide to rip the Band-Aid …
If you watched the inauguration today, Lady Gaga, J-Lo, and, yes, even Joe Biden took a backseat to National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman. The youngest inaugural poet in US history, her words served as a snapshot in time. They were truthful and unreserved. They did not placate or soften the imperfectness of present day, …
This year hasn’t gone as any of us would have predicted. On December 31st, 2019 I was in Wanaka, New Zealand and one of the the first people on the planet to experience 2020. I wrote then: “I hope your 2020 is full of laughter, living dreams, and fun adventures! And, I wish it to …
What do you have when you strip everything away? Every distraction, social event, and activity of your regularly scheduled programming either eliminated or transformed altogether. I think that’s what we’re all being challenged to do right now – to realize what we have, what we don’t, and what we want. Some of us are baking …
This morning when I woke up, the sun was shining, the natural world was crushing it 10/10…and then I remembered humanity was collectively caught in a COVID-19 blender. An invisible enemy is knocking at the gates as we try to furiously plug any hole or weakness, knowing full well that its tiny, microscopic horse is …
I worked from home for the first two years of my career (if you can call it such a thing when you’re 21), and while that seemed like a dream to me initially (and every ? single ? one ? of my friends), it certainly came with some struggles as time went on. Here’s what …
I recently returned from a month-long, “dream trip” to New Zealand. Being an avid picture taker, I decided that I would curate my pictures daily in order to not hate my life when I returned to Vancouver (with what turned out to be ~2,000 photos.) I use Facebook a lot as a way to look …