Your eyes are your truth-tellers.
You never really had a poker face.
Your brows furrow or your eyes light up or your lips part as if to say something.
You sometimes try to hold a blank look when you’re mad and don’t want to talk to us.
Showing us how empty our lives would be without your voice to carry us through it.
Read MoreWriting has such a freedom associated with it. It’s a form of expression but also reflection.
The most fervently written pieces always followed some self-deemed traumatic event: a sudden breakup, discovering a cheating partner, feeling lost in the world, searching for value, returning from travels feeling like a self-anointed guru or simply to understand that nagging sense of loneliness.
Read MoreYou said you wanted to workout during lunch.
You said you missed having time off during March.
You said you weren’t ready to file your taxes.
You said you wanted time alone with your thoughts.
Read MoreThey said I was too loud.
They said I needed to be reined back.
They said I needed to diffuse situations instead of fueling the fires.
They said I should smile more.
Read MoreAs part of my sustainability goals for the year, I set a shopping goal for 2020 - one newly purchased item of clothing per month.
Read MoreEvery relationship of mine grows restless around the three year mark, including my current solo relationship with myself.
Read MoreI’m scheduled to fly to Bali and Singapore in 11 days. I’ve been anxious about the trip for the past two weeks and every good day is followed by a bad day. From thinking the virus would be contained to learning about its spread to Shanghai to discovering that masks aren’t sufficient protection on a five to fifteen hour flight out of Shanghai.
Read MorePersonally, I think wanting more from life is great - when it’s value and impact based, yes, do more to reduce poverty or to further gender equality. But wanting more just because you can’t wear the same outfit twice because your friends (both online and offline) have already seen it is just evidence of a fragile and superficial society.
Read MoreWhat was supposed to be a casual night out with two to three drinks turned out to be a night of red wine chugs and fancy, surprise-me cocktails, led to a swirling brain on route home with me naively hoping a quick throw up and some deep sleep would solve all problems.
Read MoreWelcome to the first post of 2019. We’ve three months in, somehow. Time has flown. And here I am, 90 days later, finally finding some time to write this.
Read MoreWhen we feel a sense of belonging, whether it’s to family, friends, lovers, movements, work, causes, etc. it makes us strive to something, and feel like fuller more productive members of society.
Read More2018 seems to be the year we all get right.
Read MoreTravel, skincare, makeup and books. Yup, that’s been my 2017. They all represent some form of self-care.
Read MoreI love travelling and there’s so much of the world to see, I feel there’s not much urgency in visiting a place twice. I’d typically prefer to see someplace new. Costa Rica changed all that.
Read MoreSo it’s been six months since I last wrote. I use the excuse that I’ve been too busy living and haven’t had the time to write. And while that is somewhat true – I have done quite a fair bit – I could’ve made time to write/record my experiences so I’d be able to make their memories last longer.
Read MoreWe’re constantly comparing ourselves to others, whether it’s an Instagram highlight, or a magazine cover, or he-said-she-said travel stories, and sadly sometimes even a career high. And often we listen to these stories with 10 per cent awe and inspiration and 90 per cent jealousy/wonder as to “why can’t I also be doing that?”. It’s time to reverse those percentages.
Read MoreAbout four years ago, a trusted friend talked to me about the necessity of sunscreen and how it was an important anti-aging factor.
Read MoreAmbition is not a dirty word. A successful circle reminds me to keep moving forward. And when it get’s tough, as a yogi of mine says, “hang in there, you’re already doing it.”
Read MoreAt the end of March, I decided to try not wearing any makeup to work.
Read MoreThe beauty of discomfort is that it teaches us about ourselves and shows us how to cope positively and productively when things don’t go our way. Too often we avoid situations that could help us grow because we feel discomfort or pain.
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