1977

This is my 1977th blog posting. Which is significant, of course, because I was born in 1977. In preparation for this momentous occasion, I started writing a posting with a list of interesting things that happened in 1977 – pretty much picking and choosing those things that caught my attention on the list on the Wikipedia […] →Read more

Knocking Two More Off the 101 List

As with everything I do, I appear to be quite motivated by my rapidly approaching deadline for my my 101 things to do in 1001 days list. I apologize in advance that this week might be a little heavy on me blogging about such things. In today’s blog posting, I will talk about knocking *two* […] →Read more

Rising Stars in Global Health Competition

My friend Ziba is in a competition called the Grand Challenges Canada – Rising Stars in Global Health. In this competition, she has applied for funds for a project on monitoring children’s rights with respect to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the video that she made for this competition, she […] →Read more

The Car Co-op

And while I’m phoning in blog postings, I decided to tackle item #86 on my 101 list, which was to write a blog posting about the Car Co-op. Which, you know, made sense as something to do 995 days ago when I didn’t own a car and the Car Co-op was my ticket to ride. […] →Read more

BBC Book List

So this list has been sitting in my “Draft” blog posting folder for about eleventy billion years. Don’t even remember where I first saw it, but since my brain is sleepy and I don’t feel like actually writing anything of substance tonight, I give you my copy of “which of the BBC’s top 100 books […] →Read more

Things My BFF Taught Me

In my ongoing birthday series of Things That Important People in My Life Have Taught Me, it’s time for a birthday shout out to Sarah! Sarah turns 34 today and thus we enter the three months of the year where we are the same age! I’ve known Sarah since about grade 4, and over the […] →Read more

The Unvegetarian

So I have a secret that I’ve been carrying around with me for a little while now. Well, it’s not really all that secret because I’ve told a bunch of people, but I can’t remember who I’ve told and who I haven’t, so I figured I may as well just blog it and that’s kind […] →Read more

13 Days ‘Til International Suit Up Day

October 13th is International Suit Up Day. I’ll be wearing a suit to work that day – will you? →Read more

I Need To Do This

http://runforyourlives.com/ Props to Dr. Erika for passing that along to me! →Read more

My Nephew’s Favourite Song

This is the song that I sang to my nephew when I was on vacation with my sister and her family in Portland this summer. Sure he was only 11 weeks old at the time, but he totally loves Metric. →Read more