Adventures of a curious mind

I am writing this final post from the comfort of my couch on a Friday afternoon. It is a weird sensation to be living the same day twice. Yesterday’s Friday was filled with a trip to Bongeunsa, followed by another painfully long drive to the airport and 10 hours to fly home. My fitness tracker…

Yesterday was the day. After my usual flurry of morning Zoom calls and a few hours in onsite sessions we all headed off on a short tour covering some of Seoul’s high points. Our hotel and the EA office are located in Gangnam (which translates to ‘south of the river’). The Korean government wanted to…

I woke up just before 4:00 a.m. to the sound of rain on my window and the whirring of the air conditioner. I had a bit of a restless night but was grateful for whatever sleep I had managed to get. It could be a pretty miserable day. I caught up on some more work;…

And I am so damn happy to have actually arrived. After 11.5 hours of fly time and 2 hours driving from Incheon airport to Gagnam in Seoul, all I wanted was to brush my teeth and have a shower. So I did. This actually broke one of my cardinal travel rules – as soon as…

In the late Fall of 2014 I decided to do 23andMe, just to find a bit more out about myself. I was adopted when less than 2 weeks old. Information about my history was quite limited and very, very anonymous. I was not really looking for family. (Or was I?) I did know I was…

I have loved, passionately, all things Bonnie Raitt since my early 20s. The first Bonnie album I ever owned, an actual record, was “Home Plate”. I listened to it so many times that it eventually began to bump and crackle. Didn’t matter – I knew the entire album by heart. It’s unclear to me if…

If you know me, you know that I love Formula 1. There is a mounting body of evidence, beginning with my bright purple Lewis Hamilton Mercedes ball cap. Not my style. Probably never gonna wear it. But I have one, and I am proud of it! Two years ago I watched my first televised F1…

A few years ago I lived in Edmonton. For exactly 2 cold and snowy years. I was there for work and I remember telling my manager, who was Edmonton born and bred, how much I missed the trees and the ocean. I had exchanged my green home in Vancouver for a great job and endless…

An adventure. A surprise. An unknown destination. That was all I had to go on when my friend Jill asked me to hold a spot in my calendar for a particular Sunday, in close proximity to my birthday. I confess I did not think about it much in the intervening days. I trusted Jill’s judgment,…

This is no secret to anyone that knows me in the slightest – I am a coffee person. I started drinking coffee when I was 19, and only black because additions were unavailable at the time of my first cup. This is a decision I have not regretted. I continued to drink black coffee my…