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married life
2:47am this morning THUMP! I wake up, thinking the British Boy has fallen out of bed. Very strange, highly improbable but not entirely impossible, I suppose. “Are you ok?”, I ask. “The bed just...
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wales, paris and a featured wedding
I just got back from the most magical little farmhouse in the mountains of Wales and am now heading to Paris for work until Friday and then we are looking at the 10-day countdown to our long awaited...
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5 days 39 minutes and 23 seconds
On this day last year, a day very much like this, when all the leaves had fallen from the trees in London and it was raining (again) and there was a winter chill in the air… the British Boy asked me to...
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oh hello!
Time has a way of smoothing out the hard edges of memory. When I look back at the past 5 weeks, everything has a slow, dream like quality to it. Even with the dizzying travel and chorus of horns, all I...
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delhi – an introduction to india
There’s a dust in Delhi that never really settles. It goes up your nose and in your ears and covers your skin in a subtle way that’s almost imperceptible until you wash your feet and watch the dirty...
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next stop – the himalayas
We leave Cottage Yes Please in a tuk tuk at 5:30 in the morning and speed down unknown roads to an unknown train station in an unknown country. It’s too early to be in a such a rush. “I know a fast...
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jodhpur – the blue city
In the member’s lounge of the Delhi airport, waiting to board a plane to Jodhpur, I learned of my grand-pa’s passing. He woke in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and his heart stopped....
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jaisalmer – mr. desert
The Thar Desert. This really is the billion star hotel, with the biggest bedroom and largest bathroom and best view in all of Rajasthan. We arrived here by camel – strange prehistoric looking creatures...
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udaipur – enjoy octopussy, video show every evening, 7pm
I’m having my first real espresso in weeks at a little café called Café Namaste in Udaipur. “Real cappucaino (sic) made from machines”, the sign in the window reads. I imagine, for a moment, the...
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pushkar and things not going quite as planned
When one travels, one is bound to be faced with days that hold less promise than others. How one reacts to such circumstances depends, I suppose, on a variety of factors – general life attitude, blood...
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what a difference a year makes
Today marks the 1-year anniversary of my arrival in London. This time last year, I was landing at Heathrow airport with a single suitcase and a few trinkets from home, my heart full to the brim with...
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random bits from our last days in india
Our hotel in Jaipur is grand. Perhaps too grand and westernized for our taste. We’ve come to love the quaintness of Rajasthan havelis and it feels awkward sitting in a massive dining room, all alone,...
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thailand – a tropical paradise (and a giveaway)
When I look at my journal entries from Thailand, they look like a string of ridiculously luxurious pleasures: Coffee, snorkeling, cocktails, fresh seafood, fresh mango, fresh pineapple, reggae, sun sun...
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borneo – a lifelong dream
Before I tell you the tale of Borneo, I must preface by sharing with you the invaluable lesson I learned about slide film on this trip. And that is this – slide film is extremely unforgiving and unless...
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the end of a honeymoon – the beginning of a marriage
The cherry trees are blossoming in London. Pink buds bursting everywhere. And though it should be cause for celebration, it’s confusing because the temperature on the thermometer most certainly says...
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hello march.
Holy crap! It’s the first day of March. How the hell did that happen? In today’s news, I’m still unemployed, which, you know, kinda blows. But hey, there’s still lots to be grateful for and excited...
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my canadian-ness
it’s in the way i say pants, not trousers the way i prefer potlucks over pub lunches and a cold crisp beer to a warm bitter it’s in my sensitivity and how, frankly, i couldn’t care less which social...
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sunshine & bubblegum
Apparently, spring is here. Hard to believe given the single digits on the thermometer. It’s the same thing every year – the battle of the seasons. Winter not ready to let go and spring fighting its...
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blur
This is what my world looks like when I wake up in the morning. Everything blurry, all hard edges softened by my myopic eyes. This haze lasts the length of a stretch and then I reach for my glasses and...
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on beginning
We sat in a cafe, shielded from the cold, sipping tea and eating toast and she asked: “So, how’s the book coming along?“, knowing full well that I had not yet begun. I laughed. I squirmed. I tried to...
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