My parents decided it was time to sell their house, so it was time for K & I to find a new place so they could move into the condo we were renting from them. We had been thinking about it for a while, especially because we weren’t allowed to have pets in our old…
Scared to Write from the View of a Person of Colour
As you may know, I’ve been spending a significant amount of my time teaching writing courses. It’s been about a year of me doing it consistently, and I’ve had so many different students from such different walks of life, but somehow the same question always comes up: Should I write from my perspective as a…
I Dream in Orchestration
All of my life I was surrounded by classical music. I was in classical choirs, I trained in classical vocal, I was in bands that played classical music and all of the piano pieces I knew how to play were classical. (Well other than the few Evanescence songs I learned from my sister’s piano book….
Happy for this year to be done
2017 has been a tough year for me. There have been a number of losses in our family, we lost one of our little ones, one of our little ones has been under the weather for about 3 months now, there was a definite rough time finding an income this year, and one of my…
For something you love so much
It’s been a rough weekend for me. This weekend I was at a funeral for a family member and I received a concerning text message from K telling me that Beau hadn’t been peeing all day. He said he was straining and that he was going to take him to the vet. As soon as…
Get Back To It Boy
I’ve been trying to get myself to sit down and start writing music again. There wasn’t really a time where I said “well, I’m not going to be working on music anymore” but I do feel like it’s been on the backburner for an awfully long time. I’m constantly making up excuses for why I…
The Office.
It’s a personal blog, so there’s bound to be a post or two… or two million about things I’ve done that day and what I’m proud of. I mean, that’s life right? I’ve been on my ass about getting things done around the house every day now, especially since I’m trying to work from home…
It may be time to put down the drink
I recently had a very awkward and quite aggravating conversation with a family member who had too much to drink. The conversation went a bit like this: Me: Hey, it was good seeing you, but I have to go. Them: You don’t have to go. Me: Yeah, I’m sorry, I do. I have work early…
It’s time to leave
I’ve been thinking a lot more about getting my butt out of Canada. There’s nothing wrong with the country, but I’m definitely not feeling the whole “living in a struggling city” thing. I’m not happy waking up where I am, and honestly… I want to spend more time outdoors in gardens, rather than concrete. I…
Losing Twitch
This week was a difficult one for me. It went by really quickly and ended up with two deaths. (One being my grandpa and the other being one of our little ones.) This was my first time experiencing the death of a pet and I didn’t realize how hard it was. I think what was the…