Flying in planes with toddlers

After being here for six months you start to get a little stir crazy. You start to miss your family and friends, then you start to contemplate whether or not you made a good decision in moving so far away. When you're 5000 kilometres away from everything you've ever known it takes a toll on …

#LifeintheKnife Winter Edition

Adapting to Yellowknife lifestyle isn't the easiest task when you move here from a city like Toronto. Sometimes I feel as if people from the island of Jamaica would have an easier time adapting to the lifestyle here (just not the frigid temperatures) and we are five months in and just starting to slow our …

Catching up with the kids

Sometimes it feels like all I do is work. I get off early, but that doesn't mean the phone calls and research stops. By the time we sit down at the table of dinner I am truly exhausted... At least my brain is. That leaves little time for relearning who my kids are, as every …

Why I don’t care about looking good

There is the pressure that comes from being a woman that we are supposed to doll ourselves up and look "presentable". I hear the terms "looking presentable" and "dressing for the part" but what does that entail when you're a woman? Being a man, throwing on a pair of jeans and a wool sweater makes …

The hustle of Radio and Momming all at once

The morning show has been on air now for almost four weeks, but to me it feels like four minutes. I wake up at four in the morning and am at the station, which in a small town like Yellowknife is luckily only a stones throw away, between 4:30 and 5. I spend the next …