When are cancelled flights ever a good thing? When you get rebooked with a day-long layover between what would otherwise be back-to-back 10 hour flights. […]
Books
Rereading the Sevenwaters Saga
If you asked me to name my favourite author ten years ago, my answer would’ve been Juliet Marillier. Best known for the Sevenwaters Saga, a […]
Life
Roald Dahl and Me
What if I told you that the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and many other children’s stories you grew up with was also […]
Fun Stuff
The Secret Life of Cleopatra
“If the name is indelible, the image is blurry,” wrote Stacy Schiff, one of Cleopatra’s many biographers. Poets, playwrights and politicians have been putting words […]
Fun Stuff
The Three Lives of the Temple of Artemis
You likely already know Artemis as the goddess of the hunt. She lives by a babbling brooke with her animal creatures, often depicted with her […]
Books
Paris Through the Pages
I’ll admit I’ve been dreaming of Paris lately— of the warm glow of lamps lining the rue over the Seine, the crackle of fresh-baked croissants […]
Food & Wine
Christmastime Comfort Foods
Vancouver just got hit by the biggest winter storm since the year I was born, so I’ve been cooped up indoors over Christmastime while the […]
Life
This is 26
Normally I hate reminders that I’m getting older, and I have been dreading 26 for a while. On my boyfriend’s thirty first birthday last year, […]
Books
Christmas Reads
Whenever exams are upon me I have to fight the urge to curl up with a book and escape from the drudgery of studying. Well, […]