On Monday, July 24th, I weighed myself in my home for the last time. And then… I took a hammer to the glass of my scale. Fun fact. The glass on my particular scale seems to be made out of reinforced glass and despite wailing on it for a few minutes, not even a crack. […]
I’m going to confess something here. I often have the feeling that I’m not good enough. I’m not a good enough friend, a good enough wife or a good enough mother. I’m not good enough at my job, or at my blog or at writing. I’m not fit enough, slim enough, happy enough, social enough, […]
I’d always planned to take a few months off between graduating from university and starting my career. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad that I had full-time employment to jump into and with a great company to boot, but that niggling wanderlust wasn’t going away. In October 2013, I bit the bullet and asked my […]
It wasn’t until I suffered from postpartum depression and anxiety as a mom myself that I had ANY clue on how to support a mom with postpartum depression (PPD). I actually look back on what I did (or didn’t do) for friends and family who suffered PPD, and I wish I knew then what I […]
It breaks my heart that many visitors to Scotland have never heard about the Isle of Arran. For many years I considered it my second home. It’s an island off the west coast of Scotland, a mere hour by train from Glasgow, then a ferry ride just under an hour. Basically, it’s the most accessible […]