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...
