Lessons from 6 weeks in a cast
I broke a bone for the very first time on July 27, 2023. The tale of how I was betrayed by gravity and gifted a distal radius fracture is pretty silly, all things considered.
Photos from my journey to Lake Huron
A small photo album of wildlife and the lakeshore from my trip to Lake Huron in July 2023.
I finally wrote more than a single expletive-laden sentence about how I'm doing. Here we go!
I’ve been trying to sit down and write a little something here every single day since the first week of February, when I went on medical leave. It’s taken me half a year to finally, finally squeeze something out about how I'm doing, personally.
A sparkling Cendrillon at the Grands Ballets (2 june 2023)
Montréal's Les Grands Ballets are luminous in Cendrillon, with choreography by the Australian Jayne Smeulders along set to Prokofiev's score.
Blogs Are Dead. Long Live Blogs!
Here I am, still blogging like it's 2002, or 2008, or 2012. Because I do what I want! 😈
Putting my professional practice on pause
And it's official: as of February 2023, I'm on medical leave from work.
My first pair of pointe shoes (at 32 yrs!)
In January, I took advantage of a wonderfully snowy afternoon to climb Saint-Hubert and try on some pointe shoes for the very first time.
Let's manifest together a marginally less noxious year, shall we?
I have a handful of New Year's resolutions for 2023 to share. As usual, these are "soft resolutions": drink tea every day, read 14 books, write every day, and at least an hour of ballet a week.
I created a bookish social networking site, Millefeuilles.cloud
I created a website called Millefeuilles.cloud, which uses Bookwyrm and which lets people talk about books on the Fediverse.
For My Patrons 🔒 : Social Network Infiltration by Face-Eating Leopards
Reports circulate that Social Network users are shocked beyond all reasonable belief that Groups who have rules against allowing face-eating leopards then block Groups hosting face-eating leopards.