Lifestyle, Culture, Music
Twerking is gaining some traction in the music scene and stepping into the limelight of pop culture. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Megan Thee Stallion’s music video, Body, is a great example of twerking gone mainstream. So twerking, or dancehall (the actual style of dance), originated in Jamaica and has been around […]
This is a question I’ve been asked many times over my lifetime, mostly by people that are either bewildered or curious about my lifestyle. I’d like to think it’s one of the less exciting facets of my personality, but time and time again I get asked this question! “Why did you become a vegetarian?” For starters, here’s a quick definition […]
Ruby Fay Wray makes her directorial debut during this year’s Toronto Independent Film Festival at The Carlton Cinema. 4th Wavers is a short documentary on the current fourth-wave feminism movement that recently gained steam with the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement. The current women’s movement began in 2008 and the documentary looks at how social media hashtags […]
Growing up, back-to-school shopping was always an exciting time. I used to go to Staples and get all my school supplies. Gel pens, pencils, erasers, spacemakers and of course, Hilroy® notebooks in every colour they came in. Red, blue and black for all different subjects—science, English, French—I would colour in the trademark Hilroy® logo with […]
Last year, I would have never believed that I would be celebrating my first Mother’s Day as a new mom. Now six weeks postpartum, I feel like my motherhood is in the probationary period. I still feel like Mother’s Day is reserved for my mother and grandmother—not a millennial mom like me. I earned it […]
. . . Continued Part IV When I got home from my trip out East, I felt different. This trip had really changed me–in more ways than one. Maybe I really had fallen in love, but I didn’t realize my life was about to change forever. As much as I wanted to ignore it, my […]
Part III After what had been a magical camping weekend in P.E.I., I had no desire to leave. “I’m going to marry you someday,” he said with a country twang in his voice to me the night before. At the concert, he introduced me to his group of friends as his fiancée. I had played […]
. . .Continued. Part II : Charlottetown I woke up with a pounding headache, trying to gather supplies for camping at Cavendish Beach Country Music Festival. On the way to downtown, I grabbed a loaf of fresh bread and an ice coffee from Receivers Coffee Co. I picked up some handcrafted souvenirs–a wooden carving of a […]
My Summer ’17 East Coast trip changed the entire course of my life and it all started in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. I’ll take you on this journey with me but, let me start at the beginning. Spring After my Costa Rican sabbatical last summer, I got back together with my on-and-off boyfriend of three years. Don’t […]
As a blogger, I work with publicists on a regular basis. On the other side of the world of journalism is the sparkly world of public relations. When journalists need to be granted access to events, celebrities or brands, we call publicists! October 30th marks National Publicist Day, shout out to all the amazing publicists! […]