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...
Pain and Gain
One of the pleasures of my trip to Austria, besides the glorious, exhilarating snowfall we had, was taking grandkids Lilly and Nick to school in the morning. The next to last day however, as Lilly and I were navigating down the steep hill to her Kindergarten, I slipped on a patch of ice. Since we...
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...
Holding It All…
Over the last couple of days I have immersed myself in the NOVA series called The Elegant Universe, and capped it off with a recent episode entitled The Fabric of the Cosmos, all about String Theory and Quantum Mechanics, as intrepreted in Brian Greene’s book by the same name. Oh m’gosh, do we live in a fantastic universe! I don’t want to...
How We 99% Can Help…
I was down at the Vancouver Art Gallery Occupy Vancouver site last Friday for some time, and had the opportunity to attend a General Assembly (GA), which is held each day at 1:00 (and again at 7 in the evening as well), for an hour. It was quite cold and pounding rain at times, but...
