What I’m Reading This Spring: Three Books, Three Kinds of Curiosity
Spring is traditionally the season of new beginnings — but for me, it’s also the season of renewed curiosity. This year, even in the wake of a profound personal loss…
Between Two Lives
Over the past two weeks, my life has changed in ways that are both profound and strangely quiet. On March 16, my mother died. For the past twelve years, I…
How Stories Change Us While We’re Writing Them
I’ve been thinking lately about how stories leave their fingerprints on us. We talk so much about shaping characters, refining arcs, and building worlds that we sometimes overlook the quieter…
The Spaces That Shape My Stories
Writers talk a lot about “sense of place,” but what I’ve realized over the years is that every writer has a very particular sense of place — the kind that…
What I Learned About Creativity Last Year
January always feels like a pause between breaths — a moment when the old year hasn’t quite let go and the new one is only beginning to blink awake. It’s…
Creative Cartography: Mapping Where Stories Want to Live
December has settled in thickly here — the kind of winter that arrives with its own architecture. Snow rounding the edges of rooftops. The hush that falls over everything once…
Creative Seasons: When the Story Needs Space to Breathe
For the past several weeks, my writing life has slipped quietly into one of those unexpected “wintering” phases — the kind we don’t always plan for, but usually learn from.…
First They Came… Again? Why Canadians Can’t Ignore U.S. Politics
This isn’t my usual subject matter. Normally, I write about more personal or creative topics, but today I feel compelled to speak out about the political situation unfolding in the…
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Where Does Consciousness Go?
Lately, with everything going on in my life, I’ve been circling back to one of those questions that sits at the edge of grief: what happens to consciousness when someone…
Return to Base: The Afterlife as Mission Command
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the afterlife in military terms. Not so much the noise and chaos of a battlefield, but the structure of a command post: deployment orders, mission…
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