Love, Ashley.

Relentlessly self-aware.

The ‘Oh Shit’ Moment(s)

November 30, 2016.Reading time 12 minutes.

When you start to romanticize student bus passes and cement-walled res rooms – things are changing.

Things my mother gave me.

November 17, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

She gave me her auburn hair, her anxious heart, and her ability to be made up of more emotions than blood.

Pre-flight thoughts & surviving November

November 14, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

When I first decided to move to B.C. I never fully thought through how many plane rides that would inevitably include. Somehow, the travel time spent between Ontario and British Columbia was left out of my equation, and just now I am realizing that for somebody who only started flying last Fall, I am now […]

Ontario.

November 10, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

On home & away from home, and seeing people & places you haven’t seen in a while.

One of my oldest friends is getting married, and I cannot wait to hold her hand.

November 2, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

One of my oldest friends is getting married –

Which is crazy because I still remember the days we spent walking around the mall, counting on our fingertips how many ‘hot’ boys we saw that day.

Some days were better than others.

After the break-up.

November 2, 2016.Reading time 7 minutes.

The thing about being single is, you should cherish it. Because, in a week, or a lifetime, of being alone, you may only get one moment. One moment, when you’re not tied up in a relationship with anyone. A parent, a pet, a sibling, a friend. One moment, when you stand on your own. Really, […]

‘I Don’t Know”s

November 1, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

People ask us all the time, what do you want to be? And they wait for answers as if it is a point on a map and all you have to do is draw a line between where you are now and where you want to be. What if you don’t really know where you want to be?

I’m going home.

October 29, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

Two week’s tomorrow, my friend is getting married. So less than two week’s tomorrow, I’m going home. And I am craving the moment, I step off the airplane, and into my mother’s arms – my father’s arms – my cousin’s arms – because I know they will be there waiting for me. And I am […]

Party Animals / A Group Of People I Know

October 29, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

…And this morning I woke up to the sound of memories being passed back and forth in the room next door, and I think that means I woke up laughing – which is a good way to wake up.

Timing and other excuses.

October 26, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

I think we like to have something to blame. I mean, other than ourselves. So we choose things like timing to romanticize the reasons why thing didn’t quite work out. Maybe sometimes we really don’t know what to blame, because we don’t even quite know what it is about ourselves that led us to make the decisions […]