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Seeking a Third
Trios, triplets, triads, threesomes—groups of three always seem better. As a kid growing up in the middle of nowhere Alberta, friends were hard to come by. There wasn’t a whole lot of options. My school was tiny, and so the pickin’s for best friends was whoever came your way or wasn’t your cousin. I was…
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On Turning 28 Years Old
On Easter Monday this year, I turned 28 years old. While I’m not harbouring feelings of resentment, unhappiness, melancholy or pride, I do feel a difficult swirling of emotions throughout my body as this realization of getting older settles into me. Maybe this is what resigned acceptance feels like—a sort of inevitability similar to seeing…
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Familiar Faces
Social media is a strange beast. And having been a lover of social media for a long time, I can’t help but feel deeply disappointed in the ways in which it has evolved, and the directions it seems to be going. But I’m not writing about this complicated evolution this time. Instead, I want to…
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So I Just Turned 26 and I Have Thoughts
Today is my 26th birthday! While in the grand scheme of things, it’s just another year around the sun, I can attest that there is some significance to this milestone— at least for me, there is. As I reflect on the past few years of my life, I realize that I’ve come a long way…
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The Future is Forever Unknown: a Poem
Twilight strikes and the world ignites, born into a family of complexity the future is forever unknown. Shaky steps and muttered words I marched headlong into destiny, or complete confusion. Six years boxed within four walls I grew, I learned, I existed, and experienced the short river of childhood where the waves were rough, the…
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Collaboration Announcement
Hey guys! So last week I wrote an open letter for The Roads We Take (check out their blog it is fantastic). I just wanted to provide you all with the link to the piece I wrote! Click Here! If any of you read it let me know what you think through comments here or…
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