This woman is the best thing about a crazy time in my life – I asked her to rescue me from a meat cooler if I got trapped when I first started working at Save On Foods five years ago, and she looked at me like I was crazy, and suggested that I could just go out the other door… then I found out that she was the owner of a TARDIS lunchbox in the staff fridge. Turns out, Michelle is just exactly my type of weird and thoughtful and funny, and we have been the best of friends ever since. If there is nothing else that I can be thankful for from that job, this is worth all of that!
Yesterday, I took her to her first yoga class, and as always happens when we are together, we had a blast. Whether it is wandering around our local cemetery, taking the kids to play in a water park after dark to roll around in sand, or wearing a colander on our heads to valiantly defend the women’s lingerie at Walmart, there is literally not a thing that we cannot do together.
Originally intended to simply focus on book reviews, over time, KaliDesautelsReads has morphed into its own entity.
I write about issues that are near to my heart, be they political, feminist, motherhood, mental health, or, as the title holds, books.
A thirty-something Canadian woman in my mid-thirties, I have been "super married" to my high school sweetheart since 2006, and together we have two crazy, clever, kind, hilarious, wonderful kids.
My first book - How Not To Blog: Finding Myself, One Post at a Time is available on Amazon (in eBook formats for you clever tech readers, and paperback for those of us who love that new book smell!)
I have tried a podcast - it's still on Apple and Google Podcasts - but writing is where my heart is.
My life changed dramatically when my husband was diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer in 2018, and I am now a writer for a leading Canadian Cancer Non-Profit.
I am lucky enough to have a family that loves me and pushes me to be my best, even if it is outside of my cushiony comfort zone. I have a village of friends that nourish me, mentally, and spiritually.
Welcome to my thoughts. Sit down. Stay a while. Enjoy a cup of coffee!
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