Montreal

*Finding home in heritage, apartment living, and public spaces

July 15, 2020

An interview about finding home in our ancestral lands and heritage, apartment and small-space living hacks for families, and the value of publicly-owned property in extending our personal space and opportunities.

A different kind of spring ~ the end of a journey

May 18, 2020

Since moving to Montreal spring has been a season of running the gauntlet of theatre productions and driving. I exited every spring emotionally and physically exhausted and depleted. Not this spring.

A vocation of Christian & creative ministry

January 20, 2020

An interview about Christianity and religion, but also about so much more. We talk about facing fear with creativity, the experience of having a life turned upside down by love, and bringing more kindness and joy in the world. These are values that can cross religious divides and can help us be better humans, which is maybe the whole point of religion in the first place.

Montreal to the Northeast Kingdom

July 26, 2019

The Northeast Kingdom is just 2.5 hours from Montreal. It's east of the main spine of the Green Mountain Range. Although the whole state feels like "the green mountains", the Northeast Kindgom, physiographically called the Northeast Highlands, is a more rolling terrain than the mountains to the west.

And then it was summer

July 5, 2019

I have been getting what I longed for at the end of May - a break, a rest, a reprieve. And lots of fun.

A vocation in language and law, motherhood, and lifelong learning (an interview with Francie Gow)

April 3, 2019

Meet Francie. Francie is a mother, a translator, and a Montrealer. Vocation and attachment parenting, finding the best educational path for our children and learning how to prioritize our own health and wellbeing are some of the themes we talk about in this interview.