Welcome to Reflections, a space where personal growth, resilience, and transformation take center stage. Through this blog, I share insights, strategies, and heartfelt reflections to help you navigate life’s challenges with clarity and confidence. Whether you’re facing a major transition, healing from loss, or striving for personal or professional fulfillment, I hope you find inspiration and support here.

  • The Books I’m Reading Now

    Instead of listing all the books I want to read—there are too many for that—I’ll tell you about the last two books I read and am reading right now. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant Around 20 years ago, I moved to Alberta and started attending the…

  • Discovering Vernon’s Hidden Stories at the Greater Vernon Museum & Archives

    Land Acknowledgment I acknowledge that I am gathering on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the syilx / Okanagan people, who have lived on this land since time immemorial. I also recognize the Sinixt people and their traditional lands. I honour the syilx / Okanagan people and the Sinixt people as the original stewards…

  • Five Things I Do For Fun

    Five Things I Do For Fun

    Who doesn’t love a good list? Here are mine—five things that bring me joy (not in any particular order): 1. Reading Reading is my oldest habit. I’ve been devouring books since I was a little girl, sitting on urban buses winding through Rio de Janeiro. A good book in my hands means I’m never really…