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Because I am a glutton for punishment, I filled out the “how much of a mortgage can you afford?” calculator on the Royal Bank’s website. This is what I got: So, the bank is willing to lend me somewhere between $68 and $71 to buy a home. I feel so honoured that they feel I […] →Read more
Throughout my life, I have worked with a lot of nurses. My first experience was when I was a kid and I volunteered as a candy striper. Like many kids who are deemed “smart,” I wanted to be the other kind of doctor when I grew up and, knowing that one needed to have volunteer […] →Read more
Last week was Emergency Preparedness Week. In a display of how utterly unprepared I am, here are the contents of my partially completed earthquake kit: My kit, so far, contains: an insufficient amount of water all the energy bars I picked up as free samples at the expo at the Vancouver International Marathon a printed […] →Read more
For all the half marathons that I have done, I’ve followed the Running Room’s Book on Running‘s training plan. And by “follow” I mean I start training with the intention of doing all (or at least the majority of) the scheduled runs, but then life happens and I usually do the Sunday long runs and […] →Read more
I expect that you will all play your favourite LPs on your phonographs in my honour today. Failing that, I expect you are dressed head to toe in vinyl. →Read more
So Kalev brought me this gift back from his trip to New York: The red cube is the present. The apple is in the photo to give you a sense of the size of the red cube. It’s a T-shirt. No, really. That teeny, tiny cube contains a T-shirt. And lest you think that’s just […] →Read more
baby Canada geese many, many dogs that were very happy to be spending the afternoon at the beach or the park many, many joggers – many of whom were running faster than I was many, many bikers – some of whom were biking slower than I was running ((I’m not even sure how that’s possible, […] →Read more
Apparently I’ve caught the conference bug, because here I am at yet another conference. I know I promised to blog about something actually interesting to my usual readers after all those conference posts earlier this week, but it’s my blog and I’ll prevaricate if I want to. But for my *next* blog posting, I’ll talk […] →Read more
Last year after I ran the Vancouver half marathon, I ran into my friend Rachel who had run the 8 km race. And I saw that she got a medal for running the 8 km. And I said, “I ran 21.1 km and I could have run less than half that distance and still got […] →Read more
Today is the last day of the Canadian Evaluation Society conference in Victoria. And, as I did yesterday and the day before, I’m using my blog as a dumping ground for my conference notes. For my regular blog readers, again please feel free to ignore these postings and I really, really promise to blog about […] →Read more