I’ll be real and raw for one hot minute – I still sometimes think of the year 2019 as the year of failure. I’m ashamed of admitting this because I lived on Greek islands for more than half the year. Doesn’t sound like a bad life now, does it? While my Canadian homies were deep […]
The Glass Castle is a vibrant feature film by Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12) based on former gossip columnist and American writer Jeanette Wall’s 2005 memoir of the same name. The film recounts Walls’ tumultuous childhood which saw the Walls family move constantly, squat in unimaginable living quarters and deal with unkept promises […]
CALGARY — This season, the Calgary Cinematheque has made British actress Tilda Swinton their centre of interest for its Annual Focus Series. Four films featuring Swinton were carefully selected: the British arthouse film The Last of England, directed by the late English director Derek Jarman; I Am Love, the Italian drama by director Luca Guadagnino; the thriller Young Adam by Scottish […]
photo courtesy of cbc.ca January 12, 2015 CALGARY — It’s hard not to love local heroine Samantha Savage Smith. Her persona is down-to-earth, she sings sweetly and strums gently, releasing feel-good, gentle indie rock songs that more often than not leave you with chills. When she’s not jamming in her basement or recording an album […]
Today I was out shooting 125 Years of Wedding Fashion at the Lougheed House in Calgary, AB. It reminded me of the time I checked out a similar but larger exhibit in London, UK at the Victoria and Albert Museum back in 2014. What a lot of people do not know is that the colour white only became […]
Let others speak. You don’t have the answers to everything. Let others express how they feel without interruption. Their emotions are valid too. Let others be in the spotlight. It’s OK to be on the sidelines from time to time. In return, you may find that there is a reward to all this. There is […]
I always find it interesting that I get inspired to write when I hit all-time lows instead of all time highs. It’s like there’s so much turmoil inside me that I need to let it out. And the funny thing is, this turmoil is nothing bad, really, it’s just part of who I am…I don’t […]
I am on day 17 of the 21-day Oprah + Deepak Chopra meditation challenge. My mom sent me a link the day before the start of the challenge, and just like that, I decided to be up for the challenge and to stick with it. There has been a couple days where I missed a […]
These airport observations by James Wysong made me laugh so hard because it made me think of last night when I couldn’t find this guy’s booking. We “appear” to be typing a novel because we’re literally looking at every possible flight to see where exactly you are booked under all while keeping track of cut-off […]
Last week I spent an afternoon in Banff. The rockies are so beautiful and that’s something I had forgotten. They are easy to get to with just an hour drive away. They are calming, inspirational and spiritual. They brought me peace of mind and made me realize how lucky I was to experience them and […]
