Welcome to Gentle Things
When I was younger and living in Montreal, I had a blog called Bright Red Hoodie. It was the golden age of blogging—the early aughts—when so many of us were checking in daily with blogs like Design Sponge, xoJane, Garance, the Sartorialist, Cafe Con Lesley, The Selby, dooce (RIP) and LakeJane. It was also the dawn of Pinterest. The internet felt fresh and new because, well, it was fresh and new.
Scenes from the Golden Age of Blogging
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about that era—the days when people wrote not for algorithms or brand deals but because they loved the act of writing itself. Because it felt good to share, to connect, to document a life. Blogs were messy, earnest, personal, and deeply human. They were filled with unfiltered thoughts, blurry photos, and recommendations that felt like small acts of kindness.
But as we know, things changed. Comments turned into discourse, opinions hardened, and somewhere along the way, that intimate, imperfect, everyday kind of storytelling began to disappear. The internet became a place of curation over connection, performance over presence. And while I know that evolution brings new possibilities, I can’t help but miss what we lost.
So, here we are. Gentle Things is my attempt to bring a little of that old magic back while blending it with everything I love about the internet now. I hope this can be a space of inspiration, curiosity, and warmth—a place where style and integrity coexist, where artful discoveries are shared and made, where travel ideas are about an experience not a performance, and beauty and health are acts of care rather than exercises in perfection.
Here’s a bit of what you’ll find on each page:
inspiration: an ever-evolving moodboard of images to spark creativity, curiosity and wonder, and also maybe to be a tiny escape from the nutso-ness of the world.
journal: essentially, this a blog (or a journal as they’re called these days)—a blend of personal writing, new discoveries, and observations on creativity, growth, travel, art, clean beauty, health, style and things that make our days worthwhile.
favourites: this page isn’t live yet but I’m working on a carefully crafted and evolving list of recommendations—the things I truly love, use and stand by. Books, products, tools, etc. that are hugely of value to me, and that will also be available to you too should you want or need them.
This is how I imagine us.*
To be honest, it’s tricky to describe something that is just getting started. And maybe that’s the point: discovering and creating things together. At any rate, if any of this resonates with you, I’d love for you to follow along. With a little luck, we’ll carve out a quiet corner of the internet where sharing still feels personal, where inspiration doesn’t demand constant consumption, and where there’s space for nuance, humour, and warmth.
And of course, where we can talk at length about small, gentle things.
Thank you so much for being here.
*Credit: Beatrix Potter / The Tailor of Gloucester