health

Thanks to the new Robert Lee YMCA in downtown Vancouver for this excellent prize. I am so stoked!!! I need exercise and activity so much, and so does my son. Actually, we all do, but it’s too easy to be sedentary, especially when we work at computers. Winning the prize I got the great...

It’s been a great day of stories and ideas at Northern Voice 2010 in Vancouver – and I’m looking forward to more tomorrow. The hour is late, so I will share one story that really sticks with me. It’s the story of blogger Kimli Welsh – creator of Delicious Juice Dot Com – and...

Sorry but I just couldn’t resist that headline pun! This morning I walked past this mason bee house for the six-hundredth time and decided I want to make one and put it in the garden here at our co-op. There are 150 of these bee houses around Vancouver, tended by volunteer “bee stewards” who...

The words of a mom who lost her adult son have stayed with me today. Her 30-year-old son Devon Clifford died after collapsing on-stage at the Rickshaw Theatre in downtown Vancouver on Friday night while drumming with his band You Say Party! We Say Die! The young man suffered massive bleeding in his brain...

The metal shelves rattle a bit when I type at my top speed, so I’ll have to see about that. And I need to locate the power cable for my printer because I want to print something. Adjusting to a new desk is definitely a process, especially for us sensitive writer types who will...

Today I got a new desk at Ikea – and this very blog post is the first thing I’ve written at my new desk. It’s a white Fredrik work station from Ikea. I haven’t even decided what to put on the shelves, and there is room for my desk top and lap top. As...

My friend Steffani Cameron is a blogger / writer / prolific tweeter I met originally through Twitter. She’s a self-taught gourmet who taunts the Twitterverse with delectable details of what she’s whipping up in the kitchen. Now people 11 and up can sign up for Steff’s one-on-one Cooking For Kids (and Adults). Check out...

This drooping cluster of catkins is a culprit in your allergy suffering. I photographed this piece of a weeping birch tree in my parents’ yard in Marpole (which, in case you don’t know, is a neighbourhood in south Vancouver, B.C. near the Oak Street Bridge to Richmond). It took me a good bit of...

Check out the vintage “Trout Lake Community Centre” sign – and see the building in the background? It was built in 1964 and will soon be gone. The original community centre is being replaced by a new building. Today I started trying to imagine what the new one will be like, so I emailed...

Now my upper back pain has turned into a nasty spasm and I can barely type. What? What? What is the problem? It’s hard to move, but I’ve got to write my post for today and I want to Google info on back pain. My pain must not be enough on its own. I...