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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’
I know it may be a foreign concept to some, but work can actually make you happy. I know that being only one day back into teaching, that I am ‘speaking too soon’. But I am really not. There was not one day teaching in Thailand that I questioned my…
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so I live here now…
Every time I have moved away from home (out of country, and now out of province), there is always that moment where it hits me… I live here now. Sure, it is always temporary, I haven’t stayed put anywhere permanently, but it is still a startling realization that I now…
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no one likes a visit to the hospital
As I woke up this morning in pain, which had started the day I left for this journey, I knew it was time to give in and drag myself to the hospital. Before anyone gets worried, it wasn’t a big deal, but walk-in clinics aren’t open at 6am on a…
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happiness is a journey, not a destination
It’s been four days on my own. This isn’t the longest I have traveled solo, but it has been an experience that has given me a lot of time to think. Alone in a car for so many hours a day, the mind will wander. I started to think about…
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don’t talk to strangers
I think it’s rather funny that even as adults we get told not to talk to strangers. My mother was very concerned when I told her my plans to travel across Canada in a car, on my own. She has every right to worry, but her requests for me to…
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so·liv·a·gant : a solitary wanderer
This word, it has become my favourite word, as of late. It speaks to me in a way I can only try to make others understand, though most might not. Most people I have talked to have never even heard of the word, and to be honest, I am not…
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so·liv·a·gant : a solitary wanderer
This word, it has become my favourite word, as of late. It speaks to me in a way I can only try to make others understand, though most might not. Most people I have talked to have never even heard of the word, and to be honest, I am not…
i am not the word 