Sanctuary


January Vibes, 2024 reflections, 2025 desires

January Vibes, 2024 reflections, 2025 desires

I approach January as a time for rest, reflection, and hibernation, aligning my actions with winter’s natural energy rather than cultural pressures for productivity. Reflecting on 2024, I am deeply satisfied with my home, relationships, and overall security. My journaling process also provided a good visual reminder of where I want to grow and see improvements, specifically in career, writing, and homesteading. As I look ahead to 2025, I am so appreciative for exactly where I am and committed to building resilience for the challenges and joys this year (and others) will bring.

How to recover the story telling

How to recover the story telling

I have so many thoughts swirling these days on my writing. What it has become, and how it’s changed. I don't know how to recover what is lost. Here’s what I do know. I want to tell the story of my life. And I have more than my words to tell that story. Another thing I know. I want to tell that story here, on my blog. Not on Instagram. Not on Facebook.

Tree Day & Getting Ready for Christmas

Tree Day & Getting Ready for Christmas

The timing of holiday preparations are not a tradition for us. What we do and when we do it and how much of it we do really depends on the year and where we're having Christmas. But now that live in this home are there definitely tree traditions to uphold.

The power goes out and the writing goes on

The power goes out and the writing goes on

Writing papers on weekends is not how I want to live my life at 49 years old, but this too shall pass.

Grocery shopping day

Grocery shopping day

Thursday is grocery shopping day because Thursday morning is the Lunenburg Farmer’s Market and I want to combine all my shopping on one day.

These December Days

These December Days

One of the things I wanted to do when I moved to Nova Scotia was to return, in some way, to telling the story of my life on my blog. To steer my writing more memoirist and less analytical

September update: my Montreal trip, a time of solitude, folk festival and building project videos