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The Healing Power of Walking
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The first day of my first-ever proper hike coincided with the summer solstice last month. For a week, I got to explore southern Italy’s Campania region, most particularly the Amalfi…

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Learning to Embrace Silence
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The idea for this month’s blog post germinated when drafting the part of May’s post about self-care and being more selective about the things we waste our time on as…

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On May 17, 2001, my father breathed his last breath. 9 days later, I turned 10. I look again at this photo of the birthday party two days after my…

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Both/And
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A little over a year ago, my cat Chibi came into the world. I welcomed her home when she was a ball of fur so delicate she needed to be…

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Endings, Beginnings, & the In-Between Bits
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2025 was a year of grieving. Despite the glimmers – the first half with Miyo, the Niagara Falls, a restorative countryside break, my sister marrying her soulmate and my brother…

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In Loving Memory of Miyo
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Little Things I Miss Where do I start? I miss… his eyes, the way he’d look at us. A dog will look into our eyes to tell us they love…

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Ostracism in the Workplace, that Subtle Destroyer
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Insidious Forms of Bullying None of the many forms bullying takes could or should be considered mild.[1] When school is over, people keep finding all manner of abuse. One of…

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Solo Travel: Wrong Turns & Buried Treasures
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At only just eighteen, with my head full of dreams and the deer-in-the-headlight defiant innocence of an unworldly ingénue, I traveled alone for the first time – a passage to…

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Why I Love Reading and Writing
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As kids, my siblings and I had a subscription to the local library but, back then, I wasn’t a literature nerd. To take my pick, I’d flip through the books…

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International Humanitarian Aid: Its Limitations & the Hope It Carries
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India, a Bittersweet Memory In summer 2013, I traveled to southwest India. With a mix of doe-eyed fascination and utter confusion, I soaked up all that was new and foreign…

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