Tag: Northwest Ontario
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What a Southerner Needs in a Northern Winter
I see posts in Facebook groups asking what they should buy to survive their first northern winter all the time and honestly, I wish I had had a guide when we moved to Canada (although blogs weren’t even a thing then, so a magazine article I guess?), so here is what you need when you…
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Wednesday Wants: Fall Accessories Edition
Last week was the first week in ages that I had to get dressed every day for a full week (even pre-pandemic I had been wearing exclusively for a few months and then on weekends for 2 years, and later in grad school it is what can I put on my body to cover it…
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Fall Recipe Dreaming
There is something about cooking and baking as the weather cools (she says as it is 30C outside today) that is just so much more enjoyable and, I don’t know, romantic? than cooking in the summer. So I am super excited to start cooking for fall. ANTONI FROM QUEER EYE I’ve had Antoni from Queer…
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Friday Favorites
This week has actually been an excellent week! We have been having a staff retreat at work and it’s in person! I have gotten to meet so many people, I’ve made friends! I’ve never thought of myself as an extrovert, but I am so energised (but also exhausted) by this past week and all the…
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Soda Bread Success
Being the child of immigrants (or an Indigenous person, I’m learning) is being slightly disconnected from your birth culture. There are so many things that I can’t connect to that people who were raised in their country just get. Recipes, however, travel well, and provide such a feeling of home and connection with your culture.…
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Top 10 Favourite Podcasts
I love podcasts, they are my favourite thing to listen to while I work, walk, grocery shop, clean, everything. Because I listen to them so much, I have listened to a lot of different shows. These are in no particular order, because I don’t think I can rank them because they fuel different interests and…
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Saturday Scroll: US Open, Beyoncé, star-crossed, and the Met Gala
I got to do in-person work yesterday! It was thrilling, I’m also exhausted. The most tired I have been in ages. My organization has two hostels that they operate in town right next to the hospital for people who are coming down from remote communities for health care treatment and yesterday was World Suicide Awareness…
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Friday Favorites
Do you ever have one of those weeks where you can’t focus on anything and you have a ton to do but you can’t focus and so you aren’t getting anything done? I just feel like I’m drowning in everything and can’t focus enough to find the light and swim to it. It hasn’t been…
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How to Buy a Used Car
As many of you may know if you read regularly, my car broke down on my way back from a weekend in Thunder Bay in July. It is dead, I knew she was dying (her name was Phoebe), but I was really hoping she would make it to Christmas, I could drive it home (where…
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No-Buy Month Review
So in the month of August I attempted to do a No-Buy Month. The supposed purpose of a no-buy month is to get back on track with your finances, a reset, a cleanse for your spending instead of your eating, if you will. July had been a month reckless abandon with my spending, mostly because…
Laura Caeris - Thoughtful Millennial 