Category: the girl behind the screen

Perhaps The 5th Best Feeling

A few weeks ago, I boarded a flight from Toronto to Charlotte, the first—and longer—leg on my solo journey to Nashville. The flight filled up, the already frazzled flight crew forced those in boarding zone 3 to start gate checking their bags (no one loves when that happens). Finally, they…

Anything To Declare?

As a person with a pretty fun and exciting (read: not actually fun and exciting) general anxiety disorder, you’d think that flying would be a pretty panic-inducing activity, and truthfully, it used to be.   God, did it ever. I used to wake up in cold sweats just thinking about…

For Now, We Dance

I moved into my new home this weekend. MY HOME! Everything went really smoothly, except for Bell deciding to just not show up to install our phone/internet/tv during the 6-hour window that they had given us and now they won’t be coming until tomorrow (maybe…eeep!) and they did offer us…