Friday, January 20th, 2023 | Uncategorized
Jim Button is gone. While due to his terminal cancer diagnosis and inspiring openness about his cancer journey, we had plenty of time to prepare for this, it still leaves me deeply sad.
Please read his final blog post and learn how important people and community were to him.
Similarly, while I was not family or one of his best friends or whatever, Jim was…
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Friday, October 15th, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today I was made aware of the CBC story about the incumbent Ward 4 councillor, Sean Chu.
This is deeply upsetting. Let us focus on the victim – a teenage girl who was assaulted not only by an adult, but a police officer, someone children are taught they can trust. She then spent decades pushing the system for an outcome she felt was just.
A …
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Sunday, September 11th, 2011 | Uncategorized
Every day has a story. But not every day has a story that changes so much in your life. For ten years I haven’t told my story because it’s not special or unique compared to anyone else’s, especially on that day. But I now realize that it’s an important story not compared to anyone else’s but because of the impact it had on me. I …
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