My Pandemic Project

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…

Review: Wash Your Paws Soap

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,…

Precious Commodities

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…

Opening Pandora’s Box

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…