Health & Wellbeing

Every time I sit down to write, to process how I'm feeling about River passing, I have been finding myself so easily distracted, so desiring of reasons not to sit down and do it. First, it was the need to "get settled" back home after having been away working in Toronto. Then it was shovelling snow.

If you follow my blog regularly, you may have noticed that I've gotten more and more introspective in my blog, especially in thinking about my life and how my priorities have shifted since the pandemic. The major conclusion that both Chris and I came to over the past two years was that we wanted...

When you first hear the Japanese term wabi sabi, it's hard not to immediately wonder if it's a western bastardization of wasabi. Nay, it is more than just paste that ignites the inside your nostrils in a delightful way that complements sushi and sashimi. It is a concept, a philosophy...

In my last blog post, I talked about the how the pandemic affected my perspective of what I do for work along with the long-term development of my future career. In this blog post, I continue to explore the concept of the "home in my heart" in terms of my interests, hobbies and leisure activities.

As I explore the concept of the "home in my heart" in the second part of this blog post series and continue to re-evaluate what matters most to me in the wake of the pandemic, I will move on to take a deeper look at my relationship with work and my long-term career.

I was recently chatting with a young Japanese woman I met through work. I asked her how she had fared over the course of the pandemic. Like many people, she had come to re-evaluate her life in some way. In her case, she was deeply considering what home was for her.

In doing some of my daily reading, I came across an article entitled "Everything is Practice" on Leo Babauta's blog Zenhabits. He discussed a client's approach to self-compassion by taking on the view that "everything is a practice."

Three years ago this past January, our loving bengal cat Kaylee passed away. She had developed a chronic kidney condition that went undiagnosed until it was too late. Chris and I were beside ourselves with grief...