Category Archives: Personal Life

Why Do Library Holds Arrive Simultaneously (and Other Questions I Wish I Had Answers To)

In: Fitness, Personal Life

Lately, I’ve been taking a break from my normal interests like reading science fiction and exercising outdoors in order to try other stuff. One of the consequences of this has been that I haven’t come up with as many blog post ideas related to those topics as I’d normally be playing around with. I suspect… Read More

4 Reasons Why You Should Attend Nuit Blanche

In: Personal Life

Nuit Blanche is a free annual art festival that occurs overnight or at night. The first one happened in 1990 in Barcelona. As the tradition spread to other cities and countries, they used their own language’s words for White Night as the name for this event. Here in Toronto, Nuit Blanche generally occurs in late September… Read More

4 Things I Want to Accomplish This Autumn

In: Personal Life

There’s something about the autumn season that makes me want to write out lists and accomplish things. Maybe it’s because of how much I generally looked forward to school beginning again when I was a student. A blank notebook can hold an endless number of possibilities. Several months from now they’ll be full of lecture… Read More

4 Things That Inspire Me to Buy a Book

In: Personal Life

This post was written as a response to Candy Korman’s What Inspires You to Buy a Book? If any of my readers decide to write their own responses, I’ll edit this to include a link to your post.  Raise your hand if you sometimes have no idea what to read next! I know I have this… Read More

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What Should I Write About Next?

In: Personal Life

Once or twice a year I like to check in with my readers. What fitness, mindfulness/meditation, and scifi/fantasy topics would you like to see me blog about here? I haven’t been writing many meditation posts over the last several months because, frankly, my foray into unguided mediation hasn’t been going well. Even guided meditation has… Read More

What to Read When It’s Hot Outside

In: Personal Life, Science Fiction and Fantasy

Last winter I shared a list of books that I’d recommend checking out when it’s cold outside. All of them were set during the winter because sometimes I like to match the settings in the stories I read to what the weather in Ontario is like at that a particular time of the year. Now… Read More