Give and Take
“We could try an easy overnight camping trip. You know, Algonquin Park or something,” I said. I felt inspired by our early spring hike. My husband turned around and eyed me with a sideways glance. “It...
View ArticleWear
Dear Self, Scanning our wardrobe yesterday afternoon, I realized how much wear and tear our clothes have taken endured over the last twenty-two months. You’ve been pretty good about taking the worst...
View ArticleThe Ranch in the Middle of the Street
Traffic barrels down Wood Street, Dodge Caravans and Ford Tauruses on a mission to get to the grocery store at the end of the street. No sidewalk runs along the south side of the street, only the...
View ArticleMarch Forth and Forgo Adverbs
A horde of middle-school-aged boys and girls streamed through the front doors and stopped near my high-top table. Their baby-faced camp counsellor, distinguished from his charges by a name tag on a...
View ArticleMaya Angelou: When We Know Better, We Do Better.
I sit in darkness, mesmerized by the conversation unfolding before me. Laverne Cox spills her story to Wilson Cruz, on TIFF‘s stage in an “In the Actor’s Studio” format. All of her tales of growing up...
View ArticleShoes and Bags
This afternoon I attended the funeral for a woman who lived a good, long 96 years on this earth. I listened to her granddaughter, a dear friend of mine, fondly remember how her grandmother was to blame...
View ArticleAn Epic Journey – Part Three
I found something today, an unexpected outcome of writing more or perhaps the career change as a whole. I knew it had gone missing quite some time ago, but if you asked me to put an exact date to when...
View ArticleMemories and Footprints
I bristle a bit at the notion of describing my most prized possession. Possession in my mind denotes ownership of stuff. I’ve gotten away from needing or wanting stuff in my life after trying to keep...
View ArticleRECIPE: Packing a Kayak
Prep Time: 4 – 6 hours* Total Time: 5 – 8 hours** Serves: 1 Ingredients: Paddling Sea kayak, paddle, and spray skirt Collapsible spare paddle, sponge, and bailing pump Throw bag and carabineers Helmet,...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Ecological Impact?
We are currently sitting at a little over 7 billion humans on Earth. In 1959 we sat at about 3 billion. We have more than doubled our population in less than the lifespan of a baby boomer. While every...
View ArticleYour Input Please
UPDATE: Thank you all for voting. We have a winner! See Big Changes Coming Soon! Dear Readers, I have been in the process of redesigning Kate Ming-Sun Outdoors which is why you have not heard much from...
View ArticleBig Changes Coming Soon!
Dear Readers, We have a winner! I appreciate all of your input regarding my logo. There will be some moving around in my digital landscape to start 2015. I am migrating much of my outdoors-related...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Ecological Impact?
We are currently sitting at a little over 7 billion humans on Earth. In 1959 we sat at about 3 billion. We have more than doubled our population in less than the lifespan of a baby boomer. While every...
View ArticleWriting, writing, writing
A quick post to say hello and I think of you often. I have been writing a ton lately about canoeing. Just not for this space. I have a number of longer term projects that I’ve made progress on and I...
View ArticleOn Feeling Like Myself
It’s a lovely feeling to walk into an industry event and neither feel like a fraud nor have fear and shyness paralyze me. It’s been a phenomenon for me a few times this spring now. At the KW Canoe...
View ArticleBack to School Adventures
It’s not what you think. I’m not a perpetual student although it sounds like a fine way to spend life – learning, thinking, sharing. I know I can do that in my every day, non-academic life too. No,...
View ArticleA Note to my Gremlin
Dear Gremlin, It is okay for me to sit here and stare at my notebook. I don’t mind that I don’t know exactly where I want to take the next bit of writing for the book. It has been a few months, after...
View ArticleBook Excerpt: Fossils and Fuzzy Caterpillars
I trailed the other girls as we tripped down the trail towards the lake. They laughed, shrieked, and chattered about this boy, that movie. Fuzzy Caterpillars I looked at the ground, trying to remember...
View ArticleWhen I Am Quiet: A Meditation
When I am quiet I hear the woodpecker keeping the beat to the symphony of ruby-crowned kinglet trills, chickadee-dee-dees, and phoebes, to webbed feet running on water, to water lapping on rock. When I...
View ArticleSharing Space with a Porcupine
Porcupine! I smiled as the source of ruffling leaves made itself known to me. I stood still on the shore, coffee in hand, fresh breeze blowing hair out of my face. Weak sunlight broke through clouds...
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