About two weeks ago I had a paid gig. For dancing. In a Canadian city that was not Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver. Yeah, I know, crazy (HEAVY sarcasm here). It seems to me that some people have a prerequisite of moving away from Saskatchewan to one of these three cities in order to count as […]
Spreading Smiles through Music
One of the things I do these days is teach a music class that is part of a well-established program. It involves parents and their babies or young children singing and dancing together, just having fun. I pretty much love it. Right now, I have the opportunity to teach this class in a care home […]
I’m Not a Student Anymore!
So it’s about two weeks into the school year and for the first time ever (I’m not really counting the three years of my life before preschool) I’m not a student! It’s kind of strange not catching the bus everyday. (GO TRANSIT! Just kidding, that was one of the most frustrating parts of my university […]
The Month of Potential
Every September I write out my schedule of all the things I’ll be involved with for the term or whole year. Everything is written on a single sheet of paper – mundane stuff like classes, work, rehearsals, all that. But seeing all the things I’m part of on that sheet of paper just gets me […]
Prairie kid asks, “What’s a mountain?”: Fairmont, B.C.
For those of you who don’t know, that’s Fairmont, British Columbia. It’s a small town in the middle of the forest that hosts some pretty nice resorts and hot springs! Some friends and I took a road trip out to B.C. in May because we were all fresh out of classes for the summer (or […]