NaBloPoMo – Day 10 – New Foods I Made This Year #2 and #3

The next two foods that I made in 2020, that I’d never made before, were: a pistachio-walnut coffeecake a gluten-free coffeecake The former was from a recipe that my mom gave me – she’d made it at Christmas and it was so delicious, I had to make some to bring to my office. This was […] →Read more

NaBloPoMo – Day 9 – New Food I Made This Year #1

It’s already past 11:30 pm and I haven’t written today’s blog posting yet, so I’m going to do a quick and easy one by starting to post about all the new foods I made this year. The first new food that I made in 2020 may or may not have given me food poisoning. It […] →Read more

NaBloPoMo – Day 8 – Two Upcoming (Virtual) Events That I’m Excited About

I don’t usually talk about work-ish things here, but there are two upcoming events that we are offering through the Canadian Evaluation Society – BC Chapter ((full disclosure: I’m the president)) that I’m super excited about. First, we are kicking off our “Diverse Voices” webinar series tomorrow with a webinar by Carolyn Camman called “Finding […] →Read more

NaBloPoMo – Day 7 – Let’s Check in on my Goals for 2020, Shall We?

Back in the Before Times, I made a list of goals for 2020, like I do every year. However, 2020 has not been a normal year. #UnderstatementOfTheCentury. So I haven’t really thought a tonne about those goals in the last 10+ months. But hey, now that I’m blogging again, checking in on the goals seems […] →Read more

NaBloPoMo – Day 6 – WFH with Cats

Working from home with cats consists of the cats sleeping 98% of the time, then trying to get in the way of any work being done for the other 2% of the time. →Read more

NaBloPoMo – Day 5 – We Had An Election Too

Here in BC we had an election recently. Because of COVID, a lot of us chose to use mail-in ballots. Here are two things I learned about mail in voting in BC elections: You can just write in the party name instead of the candidate’s name. Because our elections campaigns are short and the election […] →Read more

NaBloPoMo – Day 4 – Hockey in a Pandemic

Tonight I had a hockey game. I’m just playing on one team this year instead of my usual two. That’s in part because one of my two teams folded a year ago and I hadn’t gotten around to finding a new second team last season. And this year, hockey is a little different, and one […] →Read more

NaBloPoMo – Day 3 – A Wee Bit Late

So 3 days into November I already messed up and missed posting yesterday. I intended to post after I finished teaching last night, but then I wanted to see what happened with the election and then it became apparent that there wasn’t going to be a conclusion to the presidential election last night because they […] →Read more

NaBloPoMo 2020 – Day 2

It’s the eve of the US presidential election. I don’t even know what to say. As a Canadian, there’s nothing I can do but wait and hope and hope and hope. I remember the election four years ago – I was teaching a night class and the topic, ironically, was “leadership”. By the time class […] →Read more

NaBloPoMo 2020 – Day 1

So it’s freaking November and, as has become usual these past few years, I’ve been abysmal at blogging. I keep thinking of things that I want to blog, but then never make the time to sit down and do it ((One of my other impediments is that I take a lot of photos and want […] →Read more