5 Things to Honor in Friendship
There is an unspoken code amongst friends - one that is based on a set of shared values. Throughout the years of meeting different types of people, I've had friends come and go. The ones that are no...
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Who You Surround Yourself With, You Become
During high school, we gravitated towards certain friends due to our aspirations and interests of our youth. BFF qualifiers included a shared love for basketball or underage drinking. But then, we grew...
My letter to a dear friend going through a breakup…(an old post from 2009)
Breakups are never easy…and even though you survived your first one a few years ago, for some reason, it doesn’t get “easier” the next time it happens…it’s just different. You hurt just the...
Canada’s Hot 20 Under 30 – Vote for Devon Brooks
"The five people you associate with the most, you become". Energy is contagious - and if you're constantly surrounded by energy vampires and negativity, it will surely rub off on you, and vice versa...
Are You a Good Friend?
Having an abundance of friends where interactions are based in love, care, support and value exchange is not a happening of chance, but a result of effort, consideration and creation. You create the...
Relationship Etiquette in a Digital World
In our digital world of tweets, pokes and pings, it’s easy to forget about the basics of etiquette. After all, when you can do just about anything with a click of a button, from banking to shopping to...
A Moment to Appreciate
This evening I went for a walk in my neighborhood. The air was crisp and fresh, the sky clear and you could smell the scent of fall infusing the air. In that moment, appreciating the most simple, yet...
Good vs Great Relationships
Men hunt and women nurture right? The concept of the man who hunts for his prey, spreads his seeds and conquers while the woman is looking for a...
Today is my birthday
Today is my birthday. Another year lived, and what a year it has been. Components of my life have changed dramatically – my home, my career, my headspace…I guess you can say, I’ve grown up...
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J* (name changed) was always the funny one – he had a brutally honest, unfiltered kind of humour. My earliest memories of him was in grade eight, when I would make him sandwiches for lunch every day...
“Free” for Thought
"If I get to pick what I want to do, then it's play... if someone else tells me that I have to do it, then it's work.” -Patricia Nourot For every lasting relationship, whether that be a business...
The Difference Between Pleasure and Joy
If you ask someone if they know the difference between pleasure and joy, they will most likely cite the correct definitions of both. However, while we can define it easily, are we conscious of the...
Butterfly – first post of 2009
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.” -Annonymous I love that quote and I think it applies to all of us at some point or another in our lives...
Quotes
“The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words… hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only a true friend would know.” “I want to be...
Changes – post from 2006
When I look back at my diary entries, it is incredible to see how the girl who wrote just a year ago is so different from the girl writing today. I have focused on being consistent in my foundation of...