I’m back in BC again as of yesterday. I have a lot of thoughts, a lot of emotions, and a lot of creative gumption that came out of the last week. It was as much of a rollercoaster as I thought it would be, with as many opportunities to laugh as there were to cry….
August 5, 2026
Small victories add up. I’ve been testing out different approaches to convincing myself to exercise, and something, at least, is working. I’m trying not to count calories or check my weight or worry about anything that would dissuade or distract me. Instead I’m just treating it a bit more like a kind of play, where…
August 4, 2026
Then again, maybe it’s the air quality that’s messing with my sleep and my sanity. The AQI isn’t that bad here according to Environment Canada, but when I wake up to thar particular goldenrod shade of yellow sunlight and a headache…. hm. We’ve dodged wildfire smoke for most of the summer so far, but we…
August 3, 2026
I’m not running off an extraordinarily great amount of sleep as I write this, which isn’t wonderful. I don’t know exactly what went sideways, but I think it was a few things, and so last night I just didn’t sleep. Somehow I hit midnight, and this overwhelming sense of incredible dread and depression came over…
July 20, 2026
Once again, it has been a hot, hot minute. Many things have occurred, but I’m going to try to keep this post brief just so that I can teach myself that maybe the journal doesn’t have to be so daunting. It doesn’t have to be massive paragraphs. It can just be a few words about…
May 10, 2026
So it’s kind of been a hot minute since the last update, once again. To be fair, spring is always a busy, busy time of year, full of deadlines and paperwork and things like taxes, and it tends to eat away at my attention span and raise my cortisol levels and generally make most tasks…
March 17, 2026
Okay, so coming back here quickly just to add that I may have been completely wildly wrong about Dandadan when I talked it up as some goofy, slapstick masterpiece of humour. Don’t get me wrong. It is. But that was also one hell of a sucker punch episode that we just watched tonight and I…
March 16, 2026
I began today thinking: “You find yourself at the bottom of a steep cliff in the Peter Griffin death pose. How do you proceed?” Basically I’ve been several flavours of ill over the last few days, from vertigo to migraines to sinus congestion to a misadventure with trying to eat healthy after two weeks of…
March 12, 2026
Having vertigo issues really costs in mental CPU power, as it turns out. I’ve been slightly dizzy every day since I got back from Vancouver, and while yesterday was probably the worst, today came with the added doozy of a headache that kind of put me horizontal when I got home. It also appears to…
March 11, 2026
I fully intended to update this sooner, but February, as it turns out, was a busy, busy month! A lot happened, and I’m going to be hard-pressed to remember it all, so I’m giving myself license to come back and edit this post if more memories surface. I suppose this is all the more reason…









