Posts tagged "adventure"
Triathlon!

Triathlon!

It was a big day — satisfying, and good fun — but more than that as well.  We lucked out (as did all the many other participants and scads of organizers and volunteers involved): even though showers and thunderstorms had been predicted, not a drop of rain fell on the 30th annual UBC Triathlon-Duathlon.  It was...

SNOW!!

It was a lovely way to bring in the new year:  on January 1 I flew to Europe to spend time with family… first stopping in Bavaria to visit my former husband and good friend Wolf and his wife Angelka, who had her birthday the day after I arrived.  Wolf prepared a yummy risotto with...

Urgent and Exciting!

       The post could also be called Connecting the Dots, or What Can We Do?  In it I want to share my enthusiasm, concern, excitement, for what’s happening, as well as some awesome and inspiring links relating to these pressing issues. I also urge you to engage with these movements in any ways...

Thanksgiving and Gratitude

This past weekend Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving.  It has taken me a while to accept the second weekend in October as the date for this fine event, but I have come to feel that the season of harvest fullness is every bit as appropriate, no, actually much more appropriate, than dreary and soggy, late November!  We...

Fathers

Today is my dad’s birthday.  He would have been 97.  He died when he was 61. (My mom told me she said, to herself, over and over, after becoming a widow at 59, “61 is just too young.” My dad died of a heart attack while visiting friends at their ranch, miles and miles from...