By the time I met my Ba Ngoai, she had already overcome so many trials and tribulations. She’d survived a war and immigrated to Canada. She’d had and raised a dozen children, and had many other grandchildren and counting. And she had so much to teach us about what she had learned over the course … Continue reading A Tribute
Mother’s Day Vlog
Mother's Day was one of the first times we left our house together in the pandemic since COVID-19 hit our city in March. Of course, I filmed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6tCPExEcsA
Life in Quarantine
The second of my quarantine vlogs, one month into isolating from the pandemic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzeu9n55XWM
From the End
Things are precarious right now. I am writing this from the other end of a pandemic. Or maybe from the middle. Or even the beginning. I guess we'll see, won't we? For a while now (since this post, really) I've stayed mostly at home, cooped up with my family while we avoided the world. I'm … Continue reading From the End
Lake Minnewanka
As I worked on the pitch for my web series, I realized that even though I'd put my novel writing on hold, I didn't want to give up the story entirely. It wasn't going to be as easy to pick my novel back up as it was to put down. A story has peaks and … Continue reading Lake Minnewanka
An Acting Weekend
I've had a busy weekend. First of all, you should know I got a job. It's a part-time thing and it came in the nick of time, according to my bank account. I don't know what this means for the acting thing. At first I thought it meant I'd just have to quit acting, since … Continue reading An Acting Weekend
From an Airport
I stopped writing for a while. Half because I got busy, half because, I don't know. I stopped feeling like a writer. I'm in an airport as I write this, but won't be anymore when you read it. I'm on my way to Ho Chi Minh city in Vietnam, where I will rendezvous with my … Continue reading From an Airport
Living
I had a bad day last week. The worst in a while, with a bunch of different not-fun things coming together all in that one day. And I discovered something amazing. Despite my best efforts and my repeated mentions of not wanting to get tied down to Calgary, in my so-called "darkest hour", I found … Continue reading Living
My First Rant (About Everything)
My computer is getting slower by the day and it is driving my crazy. Also driving me crazy? My room. I don't have a chair for my desk so I have to bend over to use my laptop which is uncomfortable and probably bad for me. I have stuff all over the floor in an … Continue reading My First Rant (About Everything)
My Brother’s Birthday
When I first left for England, my little brother was nine years old. Today, he's twelve. Time flies, doesn't it? I was 18 and had never left the country alone before, had never been to Europe before, and had never lived on my own before. Here I am on the other side having travelled to Paris … Continue reading My Brother’s Birthday
Precarious Writer 