Growing up, I was the only kid amongst my family. My mom was the first to arrive in Canada between her siblings (after her uncle and his family). She had a bit of a support system with her two brothers and her cousins (my aunts and uncles as we would put it in Ukrainian culture).…

Reflecting on life in Ontario – it involved a lot of time up north of Toronto. It’s funny because you say north, but in reality it’s not THAT north. You might be around Barrie which is still below the 49 parallel or Parry Sound and that’s still south of Sudbury. Even getting to Sudbury you…

I’ve reflected on how much my parents influenced my driving with theirs and how they speak behind the wheel. My dad would drive impaired when he’d have a couple of beers. I’ve noticed it while on the highway the car would swerve a certain way. Got kind of uncomfortable. He would also have a drinking…

Whoever is reading this. Whatever this all is. This post shouldn’t really be read by anyone, right?!?! Apparently everyone has some sort of outside joke and I’m in some weird ass place. I get dysregulated and I become a shitty person that needs to be left. But if my partner gets dysregulated… it’s ok. A…

Thinking back to COVID – I think everyone had some whirl wind story around it – it felt like some weird ass foggy dream, no? I know some have said COVID had impacted a lot of people’s mental health. I didn’t really think about it at the moment – but I can admit it did…

It’s kind of annoying that you bring up an issue and the landlord does not seem to care for the state of the building. I don’t think we’ve seen this individual at the building once; has this individual seen the things their employees have to endure when moving garbage? I’d like to see this individual…

Reflecting on one of my orgs where I was one of three women in a male dominated workplace. You look at how leaders tease employees about things they do, why they might be single or living in their parents home, having expectations that they should have their own place all the while they had a…

I look back on the different means of onboarding at 3 different companies. Org 1 It was kind of all over the place; you were kind of taught how to do timesheets (excel format type of timesheets performed every 2 weeks) which included expenses. It was kind of frustrating. You typically would track as you…

I find it upsetting this is how we treat architecture. The only positive thing about Guild Park is that you have these pieces here and are to some extent preserved. But you still see them just sitting on pallets with sections of damage. Some areas feel like a degradation of the architectural pieces. This isn’t…

While going through Guild Park (and kind of mourning and annoyed with how we have double standards for architects and how we’re treating facades), I ended up checking out the Clark Centre for the Arts. It was a pleasant surprise. Kind of walked around a bit on the exterior (and questioned some architectural design considerations…