Wednesday evening I declared the Summer 2015 the best summer since 2008. I made the declaration over at some friends' house where we wer...

Tracking my latest flight from Vancouver to NYC. Last spring, before I headed out to Ottawa for a summer internship, Peter and I had a...

It's taken over a month, but I finally feel like I've got my kitchen groove back. Living alone this past year while in  school  I...

I realize I haven't maintained this blog since going back to school . But last month I defended my thesis! So to celebrate being done I ...

I could forgive you for mistaking this view from out my living room window as having been taken in April rather than in August. When I f...

Anna is one of my oldest, dearest friends. My best friend, you might say,   i f that's not an immature label to use at 27 years old . We...

Il pleut à boire debout (eel pluh ah bwar duh-boo) : it's pouring rain; it's raining cats and dogs The literal translation is ...

Last weekend I finished The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Provence by Martin Gayford. It had been on my l...

I've now been in Ottawa just over a month so I thought I'd share a few of observations about how it's been so far. I didn...

I don't usually post political things as I do plenty of thinking and discussing about such things in my offline life, but I can't he...

Saturday was the Great Glebe Garage Sale. Every year the whole Glebe neighbourhood puts on this giant garage sale. I can't tell you h...

Museums in Ottawa are free on Thursdays after four o'clock. I plan to take full advantage of this throughout my summer here. Today I...

I've been in Ottawa just over a week now. Today I ventured out with my friend Hannah to Gatineau Park for a hike. It was super awesome, ...

The first flower in my balcony garden was this daffodil that bloomed March 8th ( three weeks behind last year ). Spring has...

After a three-year hiatus, I had my first day of school earlier this month (not counting when I was the on the other side as a language ...

Peter and I spent the long weekend at his parents' lake house--I managed to get up (but not stay up) on water skis! On the drive back ...

I'm basking in the second day of afterglow from our weekend getaway to Portland. Shortly after Peter planned a brewery tour bachelo...

Tomorrow we're driving to Portland with four of our friends for an extended weekend getaway. Peter and I stayed in Portland in 2009 wh...

bleuet ( bluh-(eh)) : blueberry Summer has set in, which means locally and seasonally available fruit. Peter eats apples daily and tha...

Last week I saw Before Midnight , the third installment in the story of Jesse and Celine. I loved their dialogues in Before Sunrise and B...