I currently live really close to the beach. The surfing beach, actually. Vaden and I are living in Dominican Republic as we wait and hope to bring our 5 year old adopted daughter home to Canada. I keep telling myself I want to get into surfing, because it just seems to somehow up your cool […]

I know Barbie gets a bad rap. I know she can be seen as a symbol of all that is wrong with our perceptions of how women should look and act. Like the multi-billion toy industry that North Americans are enslaved to, she is often over-priced and kind of ridiculous. However, this week, I saw […]

Light is made up of both waves and particles and its incomprehensible speed is what the basic measurement of distance is based on. It’s all around us and it is way more than what it seems. When we look at the world, science has proven that it’s not actually the objects that […]

Consistency is sometimes a value that is lost in our society. I think it could be better referred to as “keeping your word”. We make promises very lightly: we say we will get together with an old friend when we may not actually intend to, we say we will show up at an event just […]

When Danielle was seven, she believed she could fly. Throwing herself into the air with all limbs flailing, she would inevitably always land with a thud, leaving bruised knees and elbows. In her own words, she described it as, “The feeling that even for just one ‘Mississippi’ I could be surrounded by nothing but the […]

When Absolute decides to build a house for a family through our Hero Holiday program, there are two things we need to make it happen:

someone who knows what they are doing
someone who is willing to learn how to be a part of making it happen

And then, after you have secured those two items, jump in […]

Grade 9 can be difficult and the challenges can seem endless: cliques, changing emotions, and moments of self doubt. But for Katie, grade 9 wasn’t only difficult, it was practically unbearable.
Her earliest memories revolve around pain. The pain of childhood abuse, a broken home, and the insecurity of poverty punctuate all the other memories she […]

Humanitarian:

having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people.
a person actively engaged in promoting human welfare and social reforms, as a philanthropist.
a person who professes ethical or theological humanitarianism.

They are everywhere I look:
They are the Davids and the Frantzos in Haiti. The ones who live and work among the world’s […]

The bridge to get there was made of long strips of thin bamboo, loosely wired together. It was precariously laid across a rushing, muddy stream full of garbage and whatever else you can imagine, and I felt torn between taking in my surroundings and trying to focus on not falling through the bamboo to the […]

One moment is all that it takes. One moment where you breathe in, breathe out, and realize that life is never going to be the same. From that point forward, things are irrevocably beyond your control and you are waiting for the world to stop spinning - only it never does. The sun rises and […]