I spent the last long weekend with some family as we do, and there I had the extremely good chance to speak with an actual living and breathing scientist who came in from PEI about their work and life goal. Their name was Jon and he and his wife are the owners of Affinity Immuno, a company that provides different types of kits to laboratories across Canada and the world. He was so interesting to talk to, but sometimes his language was too technical for me to grasp. That’s when his wife jumped in and described to me their latest…

So I was talking with my mother over this past long weekend, about someone new that she’s heard about. Here’s a little bit of context, she had me quite young being just a baby herself. I men I’m just a few years away from the age when she had me. I could never imagine becoming pregnant now, right in the middle of my studies!! Thankfully that’s not something we have to worry about now, but my mom does have some interesting conversations with slightly younger colleagues at her work. My mom is also really supportive of the new-ish trend of…

I didn’t grow up in a super fancy or rich family. I’m now an elder millennial and my parents house was filled with typical boomer-baby things. But the one thing that did make our house a bit different was my mother’s loves of plants. I think it stems back to my grandmother honestly, she always had a garden outside and plant inside. I can remember playing Lego on her Ficus tree as a kid. So, growing up in our house there were plants in just about every room, granted we lived on a hill, so we had really good light.…