August 2019

Curiousity overcame me when looking into a dormant family mystery.  I followed breadcrumbs, hit dead-ends, tried new leads and couldn’t stop.  What was whispering to me, to take me on this journey through the ties that bind?  In the early 1980’s, a relative from Newfoundland reached out to my grandmother in Toronto to fill in […]

I was an overachiever in high school.  Athletics, marks, student government, friends.  You name it, I wanted to excel at it.  I grinded through University, ballooning my course load as I bounced from faculty to faculty.  Finally settling on a post-University designation, my first job demanded eighty work hours a week.  I tackled it, ignored