The Personal Essayist

Crucial steps I took to move from different fields every year

While I never considered myself a racist, it was not until last March that I realized I needed to become an anti-racist.

Times are tough, and if we don’t start doing something about our financial situation, there will be a disaster

In the center of the living room floor, our freshly spayed puppy slowly destroys her surgical collar.

Making Friends is Easier When Medicated

And accepting all the things left unsaid

It was the summer before grade 12, the sun rays were intense, seeping through the huge crescent window above the staircase; I was eagerly…

Sometimes, all you need is a little patience and hard work and you will never want for a new idea

Becoming a parent during a pandemic has taught me that I’m stronger than I ever thought possible.

I stopped writing to make money and started having fun again

Unless we unplug from the matrix that capitalism has created, we will live and die as slaves to money

And it’s Groundhog Day every day

TW: Talks about suicide and mental health issues

TFP: ‘TFP usually stands for Trade For Print. A team — generally a photographer and a model (or models) — collaborates on a photography…

And I am not sorry.

Why we must not judge a child abuse survivor for the way they speak about their abuser.

The Past is Just Around the Corner

More and different will never be enough so you better stop wasting your life trying to find it

What’s in a name? Quite a lot, it turns out.

Life with, and without something that most people consider a necessary evil

A free verse poem (maybe).

When falling in love failed, I wished I’d disappear into the clouds instead.

It was Christmas Eve.

It’s time we turned off auto-pilot and started living our lives to the fullest potential