Fear of the Ice

My psychiatrist says I just have to face my issues…makes sense, because if I don’t I’m out of a job. My entire career is built out of teaching people how to ice skate, so you’d think that would come easily for me. And it did, for my whole life! I was born in Canada, Banff […]

Judgement for skating

One of the hardest things about being a mother is, and I hate to say this, the judgement. Now, when I say that, I don’t mean that my kid is judging everything I do or that I judge other children, it’s that other mothers judge me and how I treat my kid. I realise that, […]

It’s not winter without ice

There’s something serene about ice, don’t you think? It has a kind of mystical, calming effect to it where you can look at it and just lose yourself in it’s beauty. Ice doesn’t play tricks or mind games, it just is what it is and doesn’t apologise for it. It’s the beauty of winter, the […]