On Halloween, 2008, I was transferred from my role at the head office of Bumble and bumble to take on a sales territory in Eastern Canada. Upon waking up the next morning, I forced myself out the door through a large snowstorm for one reason: to find a barber in…

There’s something about a virus coursing through your veins to put life into perspective. I’m talking about getting real even with the bullshit of my bullshit. The fog that if you could figure out how to fix in your life would change everything, including the air that you breathe. For…

Christmas is over the turkey is done the presents unwrapped no more holiday fun if you got 100 presents or simply got none if you were seated with family or a table of one you may be wondering how far you have come the weight of the world still feels…

I used to be obsessed with my own death; I’d spend nights dripped in my own sweat, stomach as empty as the fridge — filled only with despair and loneliness — and pray that God would just come and whisk me away into the eternal flame. The first time I…

(to see the video i posted in honor of my friend, click here.) The idea for Sharp Scissors: Mental Health in Professional Beauty was inspired by conversations with my brother @markinstabarber after the death of the barber and educator, Sam Wall. A bunch of folks gathered to share stories about…

This is a photo of me this morning — a few hours before I will be presenting on Sharp Scissors: Mental Heath at the Out-of-the-Box luncheon powered by Phorest Salon Software. I got almost no sleep because of the twisted thoughts swimming in the deepest parts of my brain. “Who…

Six months ago, I retrofitted a camper van in Grimsby, Ontario with plans to travel throughout Canada and the United States — both as a healing journey and a celebration of self-discovery and wonder. I never got past Mississauga. I thought that dream was as dead as my 25-year old…

KYRIE IRVING AND COURAGE a few words about kylie irving and his stance on the vaccine and his rights as a human being. given that he is sometimes prone to crazy stances — his flat earth theory, for one, i expected his response to skipping the season for refusing to…

TALKING TO GOD, BUTT NAKED IN THE FOREST (this piece was inspired by a spoken word piece that i shared to instagram. to view the piece, click here). i like to think i am a writer but i’m not. because most of the stories i tell, the poems i write…