Mind Over Matter

It’s All in Your Head (sourced on Snappa.com, Nov. 2025) Two incidents this week formed the theme for this post: my daughter’s 30th birthday project to run 30 km (shout-out Alice: she did it!) and the struggle and work of my students preparing for this...

Full Circle, Part 3

Circle of 3 (sourced on Snappa.com, October 2025) This year is full of these Ouroboros (see last week!) moments of returning to what was before, reliving it, grieving its passing, celebrating its regeneration anew. I was struck by this image of 3 women in front of a...

Ouroboros

Ouroboros (sourced on Snappa.com October 2025) Don’t you just love it when you learn something new? Recently our Masters students had the opportunity to work together with Zorana Sadiq (I’m a big fan, so it was partly selfish to invite her into my...

This is me

This is me (September, 2025) This is me. In my final year of teaching at Laurier. Waking up, writing in my journal, prepping one class at a time, leaning into the work I love. This is me, trying not to be too fussed about the outcome, and being present to what is,...

For the joy of it

Joy flowering (THANKS TO my clematis, June 2025) I am channeling joy and gratitude this week as I begin the first of many “final firsts” in this, my final year of what has been a very rich and rewarding (and at times challenging and humbling) teaching...