Most people grow more reflective in the beginning of the year. January 1 is the time for resolutions, for looking back and thinking ahead. I seldom make resolutions on New Year’s Eve, but instead reserve most of the deep thoughts and contemplation for January 10, which this year, happens to be my twenty-fifth birthday. Despite [...]

So this is the New Year
And I don’t feel any different.
These lyrics always seem to get stuck on my internal monologue’s repeat this time of year.
Every year, I always expect there to be a little spark of something when the clock strikes that fateful second of midnight, just as I do when the clock hits [...]

Ever since I graduated college two and a half years ago, I’ve had a little difficulty defining the word home. I’ve always had one - actually, at times 2, or even 3, depending on your definition of home. I realize that some aren’t quite as lucky, but as someone, who, like a lot of the [...]

I posted this on my blog a few days ago– but it seemed too perfect in scope not to post here, too!
Perhaps by virtue of our Canadian and career-ist nature, the bulk of my friends did not rush into wedded bliss right after high school. Sure, there was the one couple who married essentially when [...]

Hello, and thanks to all at Umm…Now What? (and you the reader!) for letting me guest post over here today. Let me introduce myself, i’m WeeH from over at Wee-Travellings.
Before we start, I better give you a bit of background. Just so you know where i’m coming from. I was going to write a flighty, [...]

I’m not too sure when I became the resident expert on cohabitation.
It could be that, seven months into living in a new apartment with my guy, I am still deliciously giddy about the notion of waking up to him every morning, and he still finds me bearable and perhaps a little cute, despite my tendency [...]

About a month ago I wrote the rejected post and told you all of my fear that I wouldn’t get into my grad school of choice.
Welllll…….. I did! I did! I got in!
But wait… before we bring out the bubbly and have ourselves a party, there is one little minor problem. Umm… how am I [...]

In exactly one week from today, my car will be packed to the brim with all of my possessions and I will drive away from the place I’ve called home for the past ten months. This will be the second time in a year that I have made the journey across the country, leaving behind [...]