Meanwhile The Sun
Spring is in the air! I know it may not seem so everywhere and every day but there are signs if you use your senses to see, hear, and feel them. My favourite sign occurs before the natural world tells us it is spring. Tulips arrive in grocery stores and flower shops....
Begin Anyway
The reading world lost a beloved friend this week. Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, passed away at the age of 89. Through her gifted knack for storytelling and character-building, Lee opened a window into the American south of the 1960’s that decades...
The Best Game You Can Name
Does anyone have Stompin’ Tom’s Good Old Hockey Game now on repeat in your head? That classic ode to Canada’s game, and its singer, Stompin’ Tom Connors, was a favourite of my Dad’s, along with Bud The Spud of course. I took the photo...
Love Is a House With Many Rooms
On this Family Day Weekend in beautiful British Columbia, I am burrowed in my airy, bright Coquitlam apartment, spending a much-needed “not-going-anywhere day” with a delicious new read, Yann Martel’s The High Mountains of Portugal. Ever since the...
Circles of Belonging
This week I had the good fortune to visit Bayview Elementary School in Nanaimo as part of my job as a Publisher’s Rep. As I drove up to the school, I was met by this amazing mural proudly displayed on the front of the school. I just had to take a quick snap. I...
Wherever Friendly Paths Intersect
Author Hermann Hesse wrote: “One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home.” Last week I traveled “home” for a work-related conference in Toronto where I captured the photo above of iconic...
Live Everything
Last Sunday, just days into the New Year, I made a resolution to pick up my camera, get outside, put one foot in front of the other and explore. That day I actually wound up reading instead (which happens to me a lot!). It turns out I was looking for a bit of...
Don’t Forget To Check The Oil
Another year has come and gone. When I look back on this day last year, I was catching a plane from Vancouver to Calgary after a weekend search for a new home in British Columbia. For the second New Year in a row I was in the midst of a move to a new province and...
I’ll Be Home For Christmas
As we approach the last few days before Christmas, I am making my final preparations for a long-awaited flight home from bustling Vancouver airport in beautiful BC to my family back home in Alvinston, Ontario. I’m wrapping tiny gifts to place under my sister...About Me
Hi, I’m Patti, wonderer, wanderer and photographer. During the week I’m a marketer in the publishing industry and on weekends I take to the road to explore this beautiful planet we live on. Find me on Instagram
This error message is only visible to WordPress admins