Disclaimer: I am back from a year of auto-posts following a medical procedure for a leukemia relapse. I am thrilled to be back writing new content and will be posting more about the whole year soon. For now I'm writing about something that is super current and relevant to me. I watched Miss Americana on... Continue Reading →
Aftermath: Chester Bennington Suicide
Disclosure: Sensitive content about suicide, read at your own discretion. I may not have anything smart to say about suicide, as awful a thing as it can be, the tributes coming in too late, as if only if that outpour of support and love was there before, maybe, just maybe, something would have gone different. I... Continue Reading →
Woman Empowering Women: Ke$ha & Praying
Disclosure: Sensitive content about abuse. Read at your own discretion. Ke$ha is back with a power ballad, trail blazing and name-taking. Her released video was all over social media in the evening EST yesterday, and I heard it for the first time while tucking into bed. I knew immediately I wanted to write about it. There... Continue Reading →
Five Song Soundtrack
Have you ever pictured your life was a motion picture? Stared out the window of a bus or train with your headphones in, maybe on a rainy day, and that song comes on and just captures the moment? Or maybe it's you and your entourage's anthem and every time you hear it it propels you... Continue Reading →
Like There’s Something To Say (or WEW: Lorde)
The title of this post is a line in one of my favourite fierce femme's, Lorde's, songs 400 Lux. The full line is "Where we can talk like there's something to say," and I hope that here is that place. Being a leukemia survivor and an outspoken mental health advocate, I hope that my something... Continue Reading →
A Sleepless Night
It's 4:37 AM right now and I'm still awake. Caffeine has a half life of 6 hours and I broke my rule of not having coffee after 2:00 PM because I was headed to the last night of the fireworks competition here in Montreal for the summer 2016 season and I knew I'd miss the... Continue Reading →
Send My Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq-RbqSXpp8 Yesterday I posted this cover of a song by Adele sung by Sofia Karlberg on my Facebook because I thought it was such a beautiful rendition. Few people can do Adele justice but this less-upbeat version of the song really captures the melancholy which the song's message compliments. Adele gets a lot of things... Continue Reading →