Today was supposed to be my A-race, the one I have dreamed about doing for years, the one that made me gulp when I registered for it last August and spent all fall, winter and spring training for. But Mother Nature had her own ideas and, last night, an ominous…
Last year, I had a Grade 8 student who brought her knitting to school. She would knit during lessons (but put it away when it was time to work) and at lunch. Whenever we were outside, she brought her yarn and needles and sat on the cold ground, happily knitting…
Years ago, while cleaning out my parents house, I found an old pair of my pajamas in my dad’s bucket of rags. Now this wasn’t just any old pair of pj’s; they were my absolute favorite – ever. I remember getting them for Christmas when I was 9 years old…
Last week, Dave came inside after trimming some trees and his hands were covered in sap. “I can’t get this stuff off,” he complained. “What can I use?” I laughed because my handy dandy husband always boasts about the “great cleaning product” that he washes his hands with after woodworking,…
This is not the post that I imagined that I would be writing. I thought I would be writing about running, racing and all things fitness but, here I am, feeling compelled to write about COVID-19. In my eyes, COVID-19 was inevitable. In 1798, Thomas Malthus published his theory of…
Almost ten years ago, I blogged about the impact of our body weight on our lifestyles and the environment. To me, before “climate change” became a global issue, the relationship between how we look after ourselves and the environment was already obvious. And here we are in 2020 and the…