

The Beautiful Gift of Two Families: What Marriage Teaches Us About Growth, Love, and Belonging
What if we can learn from another families traditions, ways of communicating, and also honour our own families traditions and upbringing.

Claire Maendel
6 days ago7 min read


The Grief of the Living - When Someone You Love Becomes A Stranger
Because how do you say goodbye to someone who is still here? This is a story about that kind of grief.

Claire Maendel
Oct 159 min read


The Darkness Behind The White Picket Fence
As everyone now knows, the Lindsay Clancy case is a complicated and heartbreaking case. I've been watching the trial and the testimonies of everyone involved, and as the prosecutor was going through some of the photos of the home, I noticed a white fence around their yard. Then I thought to myself: "It's like they are a white picket fence kind of family." I saw all of the photos of them before this terrible thing happened, and they looked just like any other average family of

Claire Maendel
Sep 143 min read



