ArchiveApril 2026

Still Becoming: Settled

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I never thought “settled” would be a word I’d ever long for. For most of my life, it seemed out of reach and, well, boring. Then life—as it tends to do—changed my mind. We have been in our current abode one month shy of two years. Besides the handful of temporary moves made in the first two months after we landed back in Canada from Asia in the summer of 2023, we’ve already lived in two places...

Weighty matters

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It’s hardly controversial — or even all that original — to say that each of us has a complicated relationship with our own body. Some of us feel good about the one we have; others not so much. We’re each healthy — more or less, or sometimes not at all. In any case, the challenge of staying fit and/or well is real. Four years ago, I wrote in this online journal my thoughts on my body image, and...

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