“will you play upon this pipe”

I suffer this weird dichotomy of emotions when people purport to (or actually) get who I am: on the one hand, I don’t feel quite alone but on the other hand, I don’t feel quite alone. I like being alone. I’ve spent a lot of time and effort getting to a place where I enjoy my own……

10/27/1997

19 years ago, on this day, my family landed in Canada. We were just three at that time: my Mom, my Dad, and me. At this point in time, the birth of my baby brother is still 8 years away. Moving into our first house & citizenship ceremony is 4 years away, and we are mere……

Living with Loneliness: A response to a panel discussion on CBC’s The Current.

Repeat after me: EVERYONE IS LONELY SOMETIMES, OR A LOT OF THE TIME AND THAT’S OKAY. YOUR FRIENDS ARE SOMETIMES LONELY. YOUR FAMILY IS SOMETIMES LONELY. THAT STRANGER YOU BUMPED SHOULDERS WITH ON THE STREET IS SOMETIMES LONELY. YOUR BOSS IS SOMETIMES LONELY AND SO IS YOUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR, THE ONE THAT ALWAYS MOWS……

How to lose a student election.

You get the email alerting you to all the winners, and realize with a thudding in your heart that your name isn’t the one under your category. You sit (you are suddenly very aware of all of your appendices and your limbs posed as if reply to the email in capital letters). You breathe (you……

#youknowhername and it’s Rehtaeh Parsons.

Sometime last week, a Facebook status of someone I didn’t know appeared on my newsfeed– the status was a link to a War Memorial shooter conspiracy theory. The status (for whatever reason) went viral on a local scale, and it was suddenly inundated with threats (unfortunately) but also lots of logical rebuttals and responses. In……