How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives. Why does this seemingly simple quote play through my mind with such consistency? It’s as if Annie Dillard is constantly reminding me of the trade-off between presence and productivity. The mundanity, the busy, the hustle, the answering the texts or emails, the …
As I write this, I’m surrounded by the lush greenery of a Costa Rican rainforest. I savour a cup of locally sourced coffee as the rain beats a heavy drum on the tin roof of the cafe where I work. The chorus of birds adds to the ambience, creating an almost surreal experience. I feel …
International Women’s Day – what better time to start writing again than a day like today. In the weeks leading up to International Women’s Day, I find myself puttering in and out of conversations about gender inequality and deep in thought about what exactly I want to say. I’ve written about why International Women’s Day …
A few weeks ago, in spin class the instructor singled me out and screamed at me to turn up the resistance on my bike. In that moment, he also gave me permission to fail – permission to put more tension on than my legs could handle. Since then, I haven’t stopped thinking about it. It’s …
2021 was hard. It was filled with anguish, anxiety, anger, and arguing. We’ve seen society continue to crack and relationships fracture over vaccines, and masks, and human rights, and abortion, and women sports, and the political landscape, and Black Lives Matter. Yet despite the turn of the calendar and the optimism of a better year …
Dear new grads, We’ve been thinking a lot about what it would mean to enter the sports industry at a time like this – amidst the worst global pandemic since 1918. When phrased like that, it sounds as fun as blocking a Zdeno Chara slapshot with your face, but truly – maybe some good can …
I’ve spent the past week reflecting on what I wanted to say today. How to best express how deeply important caring about a more equitable world for women is. We first need to recognize there is a problem and then make sure the narratives we create and share reflect gender inequality. We don’t need to …
I’ve come to love sitting down at the beginning of a new year and taking in my past year in books. This year was a wild one – I surpassed my goal with help from the pandemic bell curve totalling 66 books. In a tumultuous year filled with uncertainty, reading was something I could always …
How many times in our life have we used the phrase ‘I don’t have time’ as a reason why we haven’t, won’t, or can’t do something? Quite frankly, I don’t have time to count all the instances in which I have said or heard it, but that’s not the reason we’re here. If you have …
Do you remember a time when the word unprecedented wasn’t spoken 10,000 times a day, hanging out with friends wasn’t done on zoom, and ‘social distancing’ were two words we wouldn’t fathom placing side by side? No? Same. By day 6,096 of quarantine, that time seems somewhere far off in the rear-view mirror – just …