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The Dentist’s Chair [OR] Where I Met my Life Coach
My cousin is training to be a dental hygienist. There’s a hands-on part to her studies where real live people (like myself) can go in and get their teeth cleaned (for $27). While laying there with my...
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LAUGH at YOURSELF, Joan Rivers said so.
Anyone who has access to a T.V., a cell phone, or the Internet knows that last week Joan Rivers passed away at the age of 81. I’m not going to pretend that I was a huge fan of hers or that I idolized...
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Lesson Learned: falling into place
On my 25th birthday I held my breath and blew out the candles with such ferocity that my wish didn’t have a chance to exist… The clock ticks faster these days and any attempt to slow down my thoughts...
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Lesson Learned: Don’t Half-Ass your Life
It’s a little-known fact that my mother and I don’t always see eye-to-eye, and yet I’m more like her than my father. I might shrug off her bits of advice and pretend that I don’t care what she thinks,...
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Question: When does a blogger stop blogging?
I started my blog in 2010 as a way to get my writing out there, as a way to get comfortable with my words being read by family members and complete strangers. It’s evolved many times as my content...
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WILD [Book Review]
My cousin Amanda recommended that I read WILD by Cheryl Strayed. It’s one of her favourite books, one that she knew I would love too. WILD is the most intense memoir(ish) book that I have read this...
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Not That Kind of Girl [Book Review/Thank You]
I’ve been excited to read Not That Kind of Girl since my interning days at Random House Canada when the book was first announced. I’ve watched Girls on HBO and love it but my admiration for Lena Dunham...
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Obligatory (& Necessary) Thanksgiving Post
Although we shouldn’t need a holiday to remind us to be thankful, we’re human. We’re self-obsessed beings who thrive on pity, and focus on the bad instead of the good. We need Thanksgiving to take a...
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Sometimes, you walk right into Life
The wheels in my head wouldn’t stop turning this weekend. My thoughts sprung back and forth from an interview I went on, to the book that I want to write, to an event I’ll be attending tonight, to...
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Word of the Week [Ankyloglossia]
My cousin is studying to become a dental hygienist and during my last cleaning session she pointed out that I’m a little tongue-tied. I thought she meant that I couldn’t talk while she had her hands in...
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What story do you tell others?
Right now, you’re living your story. Your job, education, family, friends, relationships, dreams, and passions are all part of it. What story do you tell others? Mine is something along the lines of...
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Always a Bridesmaid [Family Wedding]
Even after all of the prep, the early morning, the two hours spent doing my hair and makeup, and a few sleepless nights filled with nightmares of being late for the wedding, not shaving my armpits, and...
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Do you remember what high school was like?
I drove past my high school last week and couldn’t believe how different it looked. I remember it being a lot bigger when I went there. It’s been seven years since the last time I walked the halls, ten...
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NEW MANTRA [LOVE LOVE LOVE]
As my mother stirred the heaping pot of sauce and meatballs, she called me over to take a look. With a smile stinging her lips she said, “I told you I always cook with love”. The heart in her sauce...
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Connecting Moments [A NARRATIVE]
Connecting Moments Written by Vanessa Grillone on December 21 When I awoke on Christmas morning, I pulled the black covers over my head and marinated in the stillness of the house. I breathed heavily,...
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Five Days into 2015 and so far…
We’re five days into 2015 and so far I’ve caught a nasty cold, developed (is that the right word here??) a bladder infection, finished reading a novel, applied to ten jobs, felt so anxious it’s turned...
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Chaos in the Kitchen [Wild Mushroom Fettuccine]
Last time on Chaos in the Kitchen, I whipped up a delicious clam, fennel, spinach, and white bean concoction from the cookbook Weeknight Fresh & Fast by Kristine Kidd. The other night I made a...
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Eating Alone
On Saturday after work I had a hankering for a Big Mac, and a hankering fuelled by hunger is one that must be taken care of. So, on the way to my boyfriend’s house I stopped at the McDonald’s and...
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Children are the BEST Teachers
In eighteen months I’ve learned more about life from my niece than I have from adults in the twenty-six years I have been alive. This is nothing against the adults in my life, it’s just the simple...
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Goodbye Gourmet Pizza [ A Letter ]
On Wednesday evening, I got word that Caruso Gourmet Pizza locked its heavy black doors for good. Caruso Gourmet Pizza was many things to many people; an excuse to forgo their diet for one night,...
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