Andy Juniper was born and raised in Woodstock, Ontario, third child of Dennis and Doreen Juniper, brother to Denny and Guy. He attended Huron Park Secondary School where he met Maureen Kelly, his future wife: tender teens locking eyes across a crowded Grade 10 science class. You could say, and you wouldn’t be wrong: they had chemistry together.

I was introduced to yoga at a young age. My mother wavered between being a passionate practitioner and a happy hobbyist. She yoga-d in fits and starts as interest, time, and mood dictated. I remember coming home from high school one fateful day to find her on the kitchen floor, madly twisted on her mat like the plot of a Dickens’ novel. Not to make this all about me, but… what I really remember is having to awkwardly step over her to reach the cookies. 

Late afternoon, mid-week, in the period our progeny has taken to calling The Pandemic Times. Kel and I are at home, perched on stools at the island in the kitchen on a video call with a Trust and Estate lawyer.