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The Tiny Museum of You: Rethinking How We’re Remembered

The Tiny Museum of You: Rethinking How We’re Remembered

In my very first blog, I wrote about writing down 50 dreams - some of which I’d already accomplished. Things I once dreamed about that were later made real, and moments that I never imagined myself in, but were deemed dream-worthy after the fact. In coming back to my

An image of a little girl with crutches taking first on a podium.

On Having (and Finding) Audacity

The word Audacity is making a comeback. In my experience it’s used a bit tongue-in-cheek. “If there’s one thing affluent white men have, it’s the audacity.” The two above definitions of the word placed next to one another via Google set me on a thought-provoking spiral. The

A generated image with joy on the left side of the teeter totter, and necessity on the right. Brains are floating in bubbles around the bright, playful, wooded area.

Self Care for Suckers — How Not to be a Jerk to yourself when your Brain won't come to the Party.

Every single day, we’re bombarded with stimuli competing for our attention: flashing lights, catchy jingles, news tickers, app notifications, overflowing inboxes, kids, pets, spouses—each volleying for our focus. As we move through this world, we do our best to do our best. That looks different for everyone. For

On Being Disabled: [and maybe an illusionist?]

On Being Disabled: [and maybe an illusionist?]

I’m angry. Like, red hot rage angry - about the fact that nobody bothered to tell me what to expect when I hit my thirties. That somehow no doctors...

The Right to Bear (bare) Feet.

The Right to Bear (bare) Feet.

I’ve used Halifax’s Access-a-Bus Service fairly consistently both for social and professional reasons for about the last 12 years (give or take a short period of full time work from home in the high COVID era). For those unaware, Access-a-Bus is an offshoot service under the umbrella of

a slightly blurry, cropped photo depicting a partial list of Jen's dreams, scrawled in a variety of colours of gel pen.

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Preparing for the Vulnerability Hangover

Maybe she's born with it — maybe it's unbridled neurodiversity.