What is my utopia? I Googled the web for a journal prompt, and this was the question that I got. My utopia would be a place where I could live exclusively with my boyfriend, with our families just down the street, in a cozy, serene house or apartment big enough to accommodate our needs as [...]

Happiness is simple. I am happy. Therefore, I am simple.

During these past few days spent mainly with my boyfriend, we have spotted quite a variety of wildlife creatures, from slick otters to transparent jellyfish to slimy frogs. We went canoeing at Deep Cove, where we saw the otter and the myriad little jellyfish. We also saw one gigantic jellyfish. I wondered if maybe it [...]

I was on the bus today and overheard the following conversation, courtesy of a pair of students my age sitting in front of me. Girl: [texting] Man, how do you spell ‘deny’? Guy: I dunno. Girl: Is it like this? [shows him her message] Guy: Yah, I think that’s right. I mean, it’s not going [...]

Summer school has started again, unfortunately. It is not that I don’t want to do the course—it’s actually going pretty well so far—but I really can’t stand the current weather in Vancouver. It’s 34 degrees Celsius right now! If I wanted to experience weather like this I would have gone to India. It’s really difficult [...]