by melanie | Dec 29, 2020 | Life
Is 2020 a year to remember or a year we desperately want to forget? One thing is certain, we’ve been cursing it for almost its entirety. There are so many things to remember from this year – good and bad. So while I still remember and without much fanfare or flair,...
by melanie | Oct 14, 2020 | Life, Travel
I had high expectations for my three-day Orca camp at the end of summer. My friends and I had booked it some months earlier and right from the beginning – the booking form – I made my expectations known. I told the small ‘mom and pop’ outfitter, my colleagues, my...
by melanie | Sep 14, 2020 | Life, Relationships, Travel
They were the innocent words of a late teens/early twenties BC Parks attendant at a lakeside park in the middle of B.C on my recent solo road trip. I’m sure she didn’t mean much by them, just polite chit chat but she didn’t know how words linger in the mind of yours...
by melanie | Sep 12, 2020 | Travel, Work
I knew travelling in this COVID environment meant things would be a little different. In fact, in the lead up to my 2 short weeks away in August, I had worked >50 hour weeks telling Canadians exactly that. I’d spent months reviewing research about the impact...
by melanie | Aug 23, 2020 | Life, Travel
Written 1 August from a tent in Barkerville, British Columbia. The narrative of 2020 is one of loss and longing. Loss of plans, jobs, health, life. Longing for reprieve, longing for our missed families, longing for the stability we just had, longing for equality that...
by melanie | Aug 23, 2020 | Life
So it’s been 6 months since I’ve blogged, and looking back at the frequency established over the last few years, I’m right on time for another sporadic entry. I’ve long been torn about continuing to update this dust-covered, cobwebbed corner of the interwebs. I...
by melanie | Feb 25, 2020 | Life
Living +19 hours from ‘home’ makes for a very long birthday – more than 36 hours from the first well wishes yesterday until well now, these last few minutes before the clock ticks over and it’s just a regular Wednesday. It’s been so long...
by melanie | Dec 19, 2019 | Life
The thing about moving away is there is always the inevitable ‘going home’. And this is the situation I find myself in. After more than 18 months away, I’m enroute ‘home’. In Brisbane I often went ‘home’. Every few months for birthdays, Easter, weddings, Christmas. A...
by melanie | Jun 19, 2019 | Life
Preamble: Today is one year since I arrived in Canada. I’ve known it was coming. I’ve been deciding if I wanted to write again on this cob-webbed filled corner of the interwebs. It has been on the horizon for a few weeks – since I looked ahead back in May to find a...
by melanie | Feb 20, 2019 | Life
The day I started my job in Vancouver the office was abuzz. Hundreds of journalists and publications from around the world were gathered for the biggest media event of the year in Calgary, the largest city in neighbouring province Alberta. There was a breakfast...
by melanie | Feb 11, 2019 | Life
When in Australia, surrounded by mostly Australians, accents are what my American friends have, or perhaps the Iranian uber driver, and most certainly the kiwis with their confused vowels sounds. Me? I certainly do not have an accent. Back in 2012 I remember driving...
