I am writing to you from a chaos vortex (somewhat) of my own making. In the midst of parenting two teenagers who seem to need 20% more attention and time than I ever actually have, at the exact same moment…

It is municipal election season, folks. Big excitement, am I right?

I begrudgingly pay attention to local politics. Begrudging because I find it extremely tedious and frustrating, but paying attention nonetheless because it turns out that many important decisions get…

There were so many reasons to love Dolly Parton, and it seemed every single person did just that. She was universally beloved, adored across cultural and ideological divides - a miracle in this day and age.

Since Dolly’s passing I…

“Gather round you all
the things that you love, name
their names, prepare
to lose them.”

from Song in a Year of Catastrophe by Wendell Berry

Celebrated American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic and farmer Wendell Berry has…

Folks, you may not believe me when I tell you this, but Cobourg has a street artist!

One day last week I noticed something graphic and colourful out of the corner of my eye as I was driving. It was…

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Yesterday I received a form email from Mayor Olivia Chow of Toronto, which started with these lines:

“Over the past months, tens of thousands of residents and community leaders spoke out about what…

Now I am changing, becoming something else
A creature of longing, tending only to myself

Perfume and Milk
Florence & the Machine

I have spent several hours over the past couple days writing what I can only describe as something…

This week, the final episode of Make Like a Mother is out, featuring my conversation with Trish Dryden and Janita Wiersma - two people I could listen to talk for days. We had this chat live in front of an…

I had all my usual intentions to sit down and write today, and alas, it is 9:20pm and my best laid plans and I are sitting here giving each other the side-eye. Summer has arrived at my house this week…

I have secretly always wanted to dance. When I was five I told my mom I wanted to try figure skating. She suggested I try hockey instead. No shade to my mom, because hockey is still a massive passion of…

I am singing in a vocal group again after several years’ hiatus. God, I missed it. Plainville United scratches that itch really well, but we only have one or two shows per year and don’t meet regularly otherwise. This new…

My brain is a jumble, but I am happy. My kids have a thousand different needs and wants and plans and no understanding of how much work I have to do to manage those thousand needs, wants, and plans, but…

I woke up Monday morning and wrote “I feel overwhelmed” in my morning pages a half a dozen times. I had body buzz anxiety rippling through me and the weight of a long to-do list pressing down on my shoulders…

Can you feel it? The overnight switch to summer brain that happened this weekend? The shuffling of the calendar so that “clean out gardens” and “bonfire” hopped to the top of the priority list and anything business as usual dropped…

Make Like a Mother is out in the world! The first episode with Amy Henderson is live everywhere you listen to podcasts, as well as on YouTube and Substack. Go check it out, I’ll wait!

Despite my perimenopausal inability…

When I left social media I wasn’t sure what it would do to my visibility as a musician, though I had a hunch Facebook events were effective with my audience and that I might take a hit there. After more…

Happy Sunday Morning!

I am writing this quick note to remind you the Make Like a Mother live podcast taping is less than a week away! During this one hour event I will be chatting with Trish Dryden and Janita…

On the weekend I was invited to present at the second annual Port Hope Sustainability Expo. I got very excited about the topic I had chosen to share, and the fire it lit in my belly is still burning today…

I spent last night scrolling the Work in Culture job board, feeling simultaneously over- and under-whelmed by the nebulous, hard to define nature of my career. I was scrolling the way I sometimes shop online, putting items into my cart…

Make Like a Mother, my new adventure in podcasting, is about to be released into the world - and I want to tell you all about it!

Why a Podcast? Why This Podcast?

As many of you know, I am…

I am feeling the first, hard-to-ignore signs of perimenopause knocking on my door. A few have already let themselves in and settled on the couch. The most prominent symptoms for me at this time are brain fog/lack of memory and…

There are basically two drivers in me when it comes to my creative work - one is my ego and the other is my curiosity. I spend an inordinate amount of time grappling with the balance between these two drivers…

I am in Mont Tremblant enjoying some last days of winter fun, after which I expect to arrive home to spring in full bloom. Don’t burst my bubble.

Siren Songs with Kerri Ough and Rayleigh is fast approaching. These two…

The world is dark. Yesterday I cried in my car running errands, utterly heartbroken.

Despite my daily life supposedly continuing on as usual, I can’t seem to get through a day without talking about the darkness. So sorry to ruin…