Home(s) Creative Nonfiction
All in Home(s) Creative Nonfiction
November 17, 2018
To move forward, we have to move back
By the time I turned 18, I had lived in 3 different provinces, 6 different cities, gone to 6 different schools, and occupied more than 7 houses.
November 17, 2018
Finding an unlikely home in first year
The other day, I was asked for directions on campus twice and I knew the answer both times.
November 16, 2018
Ink
The whir of a tattoo machine is a homecoming, now — and each tattoo is a pillar of what makes me, me.
November 16, 2018
The art of feeling safe when you’re vulnerable
There are no consequences to being emotional, upset, angry, vulnerable in my home.
November 16, 2018
The transformation of home
Home use to be a place that once I entered through the door, all worries about school and people slipped off my body like raindrops on Gore-Tex.
November 16, 2018
Deeper version of th colour
Google Maps is quite the tool. Just last week I perused my childhood home noting it was bluer than it’d been.
November 15, 2018
Practices of belonging
Home takes time to build and rebuild, to find and to treasure, to believe and then to feel.
November 15, 2018
From black gold to Blanca
A few short weeks before my graduation in May 2016, the wind started blowing a little harder in a different direction, and twenty-foot flames started eating up my town. Trees burned, gas stations exploded, and 70,000 people clamoured to get away.
November 15, 2018
Lenses of longing
It would be too easy to be uprooted by the mishaps of life if I wasn’t constantly surrounded by an inspiring environment or a place where I felt belonging.
