Watching the train derail when you can’t get out of the way I Heather Plett

When I wander through the forest, the trees demand my attention. Especially here on the west coast, where trees can stretch more than 90 metres into the sky and be as wide as 20 metres in circumferenc...

4 Huhti 202411min

After performing Chopin for a business conference crowd, Michael Jones sat down at the piano in the hotel lobby and started playing his own music. A man who’d been in the audience earlier stopped to a...

25 Maalis 20248min

I was reading something this weekend about pain and how it’s the body’s way of telling us there’s something we need to pay attention to. And then I thought… it works for the heart and the mind too. R...

24 Maalis 20246min

“So… what made you move to Shawnigan Lake?” It’s one of the most common questions I get from people I encounter in the tiny village I moved to at the edge of a lake on Vancouver Island. “It was time f...

16 Helmi 202412min

My name is Krista and that, over there on the left, the one smiling at you kindly from her writing desk on the West Coast of Canada, is Heather, my business partner-slash-work-wife. I’m holed up right...

9 Helmi 20248min

“I don’t know who I am. I’ve shaped my life around other people for so long that I’ve lost sight of myself.” I used to hear some version of that sentiment quite regularly, ten years ago when more of m...

8 Helmi 202414min

“You need to pause to let joy in.” Those words popped into my head one day last week while I was sitting on the couch, weary after a long day of book-launch-related tasks, which followed several long ...

30 Tammi 20249min

I’m not going to lie. I am nervous about you. No. More than that. I am anxious and border-line dreading you. It’s not your fault, really. You just happen to be the year of another U.S. election cycle,...

16 Tammi 20246min