With Glowing Hearts
One summer when I was a little girl, a bird flew down the chimney and into our wood burning stove. I remember the strange sounds coming from that cast iron pod in our basement and I remember truly feeling worried on behalf of that bird. When my dad had devised a plan – he turned […]
Story Of A Girl
We tend to think it’s going to be just one moment that grows us up, that changes us; that guides us to becoming that ‘better’ version of ourselves. Instead, it ends up being more like a thousand of them – and when each one happens, there’s no going back. Since the fateful day I hit […]
Never Let Up
While this entry has taken some time to come together for me, the fact is that time is exactly what we all need in life when things don’t go quite as planned. So, while I know I don’t need to apologize for the delay in posting, all the same, I wish to send a heart […]
The Privilege of Pressure
Cracking open a fortune cookie last month in my hometown of Brandon, Manitoba I didn’t think much of it. Then I read: “Your friends will truly be helpful in your next month’s endeavour.” Those simple, and typically generic words screamed at me. My fingers instantaneously tucked it, face-up, into the back of the clear protective […]
The Bigger Picture
This post was originally featured on the Whistler Sliding Centre blog in a two-part series – with the forward written by Meghan Kines of Whistler Sport Legacies. Sometimes, things just click. For whatever reason, the pieces fall into place, the puzzle comes together, and the results are brilliant. This seems to be the case with […]
Stay Tuned
As the sun begins to shine with a little more ‘oomph’, Skeleton/Bob tracks morph into their (literal) concrete summer identities – and sliders around the world return to a life that is the yin to their yang. Personally, I wrapped up my season with a few more runs in Calgary – at Canada Olympic Park […]
One-Hundredth of a Second
One one-hundredth is faster than the blink of an eye; it’s faster than a flash of lightning … and it’s the smallest margin of time measured in our (and many different types of) sport. We will scratch and claw and even obsess … all for that practically unseen extra moment of time. There are many […]
A Frame in Focus
In my recent travels, between boarding flights and infinite cups of coffee I wandered through a bookstore. Choosing books by their cover (yes, really) I happened to open up one, in which this sentence suddenly jumped out at me, “Go where you don’t want to go. Get in luck’s path.” I stood there motionless. Some […]
Fortnight with The Fastest
Upon our return from Europe the Canadian Europa Cup team were scheduled to forerun the final World Cup races being held in Whistler, BC and Calgary, AB respectively. Forerunning – for those who are unsure – is what it’s called when they send down athletes ahead of the racers during both official training and for […]
Make Mistakes.
There is no better teacher than that of a mistake. The experience can be frustrating, confusing, and even surprising – but ultimately, mistakes are humbling. Much like the sting of a swift slap across the face, mistakes remind us that we are human. They wake us up to the reality that our choices and final […]