THE FUTURE Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the future. To me, thinking more than a month in advance gets a little scary. I don’t know what my summer plans are, where I’ll be living, or whether or not I will be able to do camp this year. I worry a lot about my … Read more →

Hello and love from Northern Ireland! I am living and working in a small town called Ballycastle at a Peace and Reconciliation Centre and I love it! The work we do here is all about bringing together people, and groups from all over the world who are in conflict with each other and helping them … Read more →

Hello, my name is Cody Puckett and I am dumpster diver. It all started behind a thrift store. There was nothing good inside, so I went around back and took a look in the trash. Sitting on the top I found my old hockey gear that I had just donated the day before, still wrapped … Read more →

It’s taken me a long time to get here. Last night I went to see Demetri Martin perform his comedy act at a venue in downtown Vancouver. It had been a pretty good day. I’d spent the morning reading and sipping good coffee from one of my favorite local coffee shops. In the early afternoon I hiked … Read more →

So I’m back home for the holidays, home being Mackenzie, a small town a couple of hours by car past Prince George, for what is supposed to be my last family Christmas in the house that I grew up in. I’ve been thinking a lot about home lately, and what the word home means. For … Read more →

I’ve always had an attachment to animals. Yes, even the stuffed variety. I was an avid collector of beanie babies and bears from all over. They all had names, and personalities, some of my beanie babies were dating, there were families. I basically created a stuffed community.  I even had one little dog, name Tricks … Read more →

Another morning, another adventure. I roll off of my mattress to take a deep breath and begin re-packing. It was Monday, November 7th; I had no idea what time it was, and the only reason I was aware of the date, was because I had another flight to catch. I took a minute to collect … Read more →

I have this great party trick I can do. I tell people I’m a childcare worker, working primarily with children aged between 5 and 8. It catches them off guard every time without fail. I don’t know if it’s because I’m four times the size of any normal child or because as the pictures clearly … Read more →

Here’s what I’ve always known about myself: 1.  I own more pieces of red clothing than anyone else 2.  That I have always done what was expected of me 3.  I get ridiculously scared and anxious when I disappoint people In the past few months, one of the three facts about myself is no longer … Read more →

Ben, Jenna, and Eliot signing in all the way from the stormy town of Ucluelet/Tofino. We don’t have a lot of spare time around here. I’ve managed to slot in a bit of time in between our nightly knitting sessions and the time I put away every night to sit in my lazy boy (Actually … Read more →