Category: 2009
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First Harvest
The “newest” trend in shopping and eating is to “buy local”. Call it the “100-Mile Diet”, “Sustainable Table”, “Food Routes” or whatever you want, I have a news flash. Until very recently, this is how things were done. Buying locally was all the rage when you could only get things that were grown / made…
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What do you get …
when you cross something a bit more complicated than “point & click” and someone with little patience for things a bit more complicated than “point & click”? You get me. Now, I wouldn’t call myself a “techno-idiot”, but when my techie friends start talking code and initialization and things like that, my eyes do glaze…
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3 Weeks In
It has been an eventful first 3 weeks of my summer! So eventful, in fact, that I haven’t had much time to record the events. So here’s the recap … Week 1 – BC Bike Race. I was asked to help support some friends who did this epic 7 day stage race. The days were…
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Patience, Grasshopper
“Good things come to those who wait”“Patience is a virtue”“Slow down and smell the roses” All of these well-known and frequently-used quotes extol the virtues of slowing down. So why is it in the 21st Century, we all want things to happen NOW? Cell phones let us communicate with our friends, family and work wherever,…
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Survey says …
A few weeks into my training moratorium, I figured it was a good time to take stock. PHYSICALLY – Obviously, this is where the most change has occurred. There have been equally as many positive as negative effects. A few of the more notable ones: Positive: my feet have been hurting less than in the…
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Slight change of plans
Things change. I don’t think there’s anyone out there who would be able to successfully argue this point. Sometimes things change for the better, sometimes for the worse. Sometimes we initiate change, sometimes we resist it. Regardless of these fine points, it happens. So, given that introduction, it may not come as a surprise that…
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