THE BIRDS AND THE BEES
Before you I didn’t know The kinds of birds in sky The rhythm of their songs Their many feathers A flutter Is it my heart, or yours?...
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Andrea
- Jun 2
- 2 min
"X"
[***EDIT- Since the original publication of this post, I have grown uncomfortable with she/her pronouns and don't wish to use them.***]...
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Andrea
- Apr 26
- 6 min
"In Between/Then/Now"
In Between/ Freed from the obligation to be anyone other than myself, I am discovering that I am the person I feared for so long I was....
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Andrea
- Feb 16
- 1 min
Interstitial
There is something between us you and me and all of us that makes each of us a you. The fiber of betweenness; Brave Patience is a steady...
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Andrea
- Jan 11
- 2 min
Remembering
A year ago today, I attempted to take my own life. To the outside world, that probably made no sense. I was about a year into my second...
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Andrea
- Jan 6
- 6 min
Making It
I told myself, when I started writing again, that I wouldn’t revisit the specifics of what led to the collapse of my legal career. I...
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Andrea
- Dec 21, 2021
- 6 min
Yokes of Shame
If you had told me, in December 2020, that in December 2021 I would be living in a consensually non-monogamous marriage as a result of my...
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Andrea
- Nov 30, 2021
- 1 min
Round
Cycles, circles, wheels of progress. Transience. Temporality. Temporariness. Forward, through, back again. The same, but different. Meso,...
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Andrea
- Oct 15, 2021
- 5 min
And the Other Shoe Drops
When I was 17 years old, my parents mutilated my face. They paid a world-class plastic surgeon, Dr. Anthony Terrasse, to make adjustments...
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Andrea
- Oct 4, 2021
- 4 min
The Inaugural BCBR Gravel Explorer: More Than a Bike Race
What a week. “Race” is but one of the words I would use to describe the experience, the inaugural edition of the BCBR Gravel Explorer, a...
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Andrea
- Aug 24, 2021
- 2 min
"Polson Trees and Girls Like These"
My girls asked me if I could paint them so I decided to tackle a landscape view of a recent walk we took at Polson Park (while...
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Andrea
- Jul 22, 2021
- 3 min
Expectations
A couple of months ago, as I found myself getting more “functional”, a habit I abandoned following my suicide attempt started to creep...
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Andrea
- Jul 11, 2021
- 10 min
Full Circle
I don’t usually ride my mountain bike alone. In fact, I only started mountain biking in the early days of my relationship with my...
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Andrea
- Jun 11, 2021
- 2 min
Moderation
As someone whose current functional existence can largely be attributed to a cocktail of two antidepressants which took months to...
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Andrea
- May 29, 2021
- 1 min
Wheels
I grind and claw and dig and shred My way up and out and away Away from myself To the exquisite feeling Inhabiting the calibrated cadence...
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Andrea
- May 2, 2021
- 1 min
Welcome!
This website started as a passion project when I discovered that there was no online home for Okanagan gravel cycling. The content...
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