Look Out Invisible Woman Syndrome. There’s a New Sheriff in Town.

June 23, 2026.Reading time 22 minutes.

I have been 18. 28. 38. And then, all of a sudden, 48. Fingers crossed, I will be 58, 68 and hopefully 78. And then, well, I guess the jury is out after that. As I write this now, I am 51. But my first encounter with Invisible Woman Syndrome happened at 48. There has […]

Travel Memoir: The People You Meet

July 3, 2025.Reading time 3 minutes.

In 2010, at the age of 35, I had the opportunity to leave my life in Toronto, Ontario, Canada behind for a few months to travel around Southeast Asia and China with my British boyfriend. Thanks to his work in the luxury travel industry, the trip was to be part budget/backpacker and part luxury with […]

Wadi Rum Magic

July 29, 2022.Reading time 4 minutes.

Wadi Rum Magic I had the great luck of going to Jordan about two weeks before the pandemic shut the world down in 2020. Although we are living with relative normalcy again, whenever I think about this trip over the last two years, it feels very odd to think about how freely we were moving […]

Discovering Soul Mates – Travel’s Biggest Gift

July 29, 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

Discovering Soul Mates – Travel’s Biggest Gift When I was in grade 11, I went on exchange to Namur, Belgium for a few months. Namur is a French speaking city of approximately 110,00 and is the capital of Belgium’s Wallonia region. This didn’t mean a lot to me when I was in grade 11, but […]