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Flipping The Seasonal Switch {Subarctic Musings}
The days may be long, but the years are short. Somehow the seasonal switch got flipped up here in the subarctic. Just last month I was plugging in my little red jeep and trying to not die in the -20 degree weather. 45 degrees and 3 weeks later, we officially have spring. Every single winter, [...
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The days may be long, but the years are short. Somehow the seasonal switch got flipped up here in the subarctic. Just last month I was plugging in my little red jeep and trying to not die in the -20 degree weather. 45 degrees and 3 weeks later, we officially have spring. Every single winter, [...
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My Career As A Showgirl Is Over
Or, more accurately, never got started. Hearing that you are most likely not going to be a showgirl while a man is shoving needles into your hips and you’re trying not to scream is not what most women do on a Wednesday afternoon. Apparently I am not most women. I went back to the Bearded [&...
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Or, more accurately, never got started. Hearing that you are most likely not going to be a showgirl while a man is shoving needles into your hips and you’re trying not to scream is not what most women do on a Wednesday afternoon. Apparently I am not most women. I went back to the Bearded [&...
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I Am Officially A Running Failure
“Wow. These are the tightest calves I think I’ve ever seen,” is not what you want to hear when a man is shoving a needle into your calf and then jiggling it around. Over the last three weeks, I have run a sum total of 2.5 kilometres. And those were over the weekend in Jasper […]
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“Wow. These are the tightest calves I think I’ve ever seen,” is not what you want to hear when a man is shoving a needle into your calf and then jiggling it around. Over the last three weeks, I have run a sum total of 2.5 kilometres. And those were over the weekend in Jasper […]
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More Than Just Miles
Last March, I decided to be brave and start running with a speedy group of runners. I am not speedy. My genetic potential is comparable to that of a sloth; these people have cheetah running through their veins. Their jog is my race pace. For just over a year, I have spent nearly every Wednesday [...
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Last March, I decided to be brave and start running with a speedy group of runners. I am not speedy. My genetic potential is comparable to that of a sloth; these people have cheetah running through their veins. Their jog is my race pace. For just over a year, I have spent nearly every Wednesday [...
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The Great Balancing Act
Earlier this month, I heard that one of my friends has stage 4 breast cancer. She is my age, full of life, fit as you could ever want to be, and lives an adventuresome life with her little family. For two days my mind was in a bit of a fog due to the shock. […]
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Earlier this month, I heard that one of my friends has stage 4 breast cancer. She is my age, full of life, fit as you could ever want to be, and lives an adventuresome life with her little family. For two days my mind was in a bit of a fog due to the shock. […]
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Adventure Highlight ‘Real’
If I have learned anything in the last few years, it is this – ‘one day‘ rarely comes, so do it now. For the first time in my life, I pushed pause and went traveling for more than a week or two. For all 31 days of December, we explored southern Spain, Portugal, the English [R...
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If I have learned anything in the last few years, it is this – ‘one day‘ rarely comes, so do it now. For the first time in my life, I pushed pause and went traveling for more than a week or two. For all 31 days of December, we explored southern Spain, Portugal, the English [R...
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Unfortunately #MeToo
The life of being a woman … complex. And I don’t say this tongue in cheek – it is hard to be a woman. If I read the social cues of my world correctly, I am supposed to be size 4, fit beyond belief, have three or four sets of letters after my name, be […]
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The life of being a woman … complex. And I don’t say this tongue in cheek – it is hard to be a woman. If I read the social cues of my world correctly, I am supposed to be size 4, fit beyond belief, have three or four sets of letters after my name, be […]
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Life Is Like Riding A Bicycle …
… to keep your balance, you must keep moving. Einstein was wise in his admonition to keep moving in an effort to avoid complete disaster. This is great advice, even if you are a klutz like me. Seriously, I don’t know another woman who is as prone to fall over, trip or run into something [&#...
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… to keep your balance, you must keep moving. Einstein was wise in his admonition to keep moving in an effort to avoid complete disaster. This is great advice, even if you are a klutz like me. Seriously, I don’t know another woman who is as prone to fall over, trip or run into something [&#...
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Life Is Like Riding A Bicycle …
… to keep your balance, you must keep moving. Einstein was wise in his admonition to keep moving in an effort to avoid complete disaster. This is great advice, even if you are a klutz like me. Seriously, I don’t know another woman who is as prone to fall over, trip or run into something [&#...
Published at Donloree
… to keep your balance, you must keep moving. Einstein was wise in his admonition to keep moving in an effort to avoid complete disaster. This is great advice, even if you are a klutz like me. Seriously, I don’t know another woman who is as prone to fall over, trip or run into something [&#...
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Be Yourself? Umm… Maybe Try Again …
Some of the worst advice out there is, “Be yourself.” Want to know a secret? Sometimes ‘yourself” really sucks. Much better advice is to, “Be the ‘yourself’ you will be ridiculously proud of 30 years from now.” Unfortunately that slogan doesn’...
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Some of the worst advice out there is, “Be yourself.” Want to know a secret? Sometimes ‘yourself” really sucks. Much better advice is to, “Be the ‘yourself’ you will be ridiculously proud of 30 years from now.” Unfortunately that slogan doesn’...
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Be Yourself? Umm… Maybe Try Again …
Some of the worst advice out there is, “Be yourself.” Want to know a secret? Sometimes ‘yourself” really sucks. Much better advice is to, “Be the ‘yourself’ you will be ridiculously proud of 30 years from now.” Unfortunately that slogan doesn’...
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Some of the worst advice out there is, “Be yourself.” Want to know a secret? Sometimes ‘yourself” really sucks. Much better advice is to, “Be the ‘yourself’ you will be ridiculously proud of 30 years from now.” Unfortunately that slogan doesn’...
Published at Donloree
The Art of Becoming {Sinister 7 Musings}
10 kilometers into my leg of Sinister 7, I wondered how in the world I could be THAT sweaty. Sure, it was a sweltering day in Crowsnest Pass, but how can a woman sweat so much that it drips down her legs and literally pours off of her like a mini Niagara Falls? She can’t. Or at […]
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10 kilometers into my leg of Sinister 7, I wondered how in the world I could be THAT sweaty. Sure, it was a sweltering day in Crowsnest Pass, but how can a woman sweat so much that it drips down her legs and literally pours off of her like a mini Niagara Falls? She can’t. Or at […]
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The Art of Becoming {Sinister 7 Musings}
10 kilometers into my leg of Sinister 7, I wondered how in the world I could be THAT sweaty. Sure, it was a sweltering day in Crowsnest Pass, but how can a woman sweat so much that it drips down her legs and literally pours off of her like a mini Niagara Falls? She can’t. Or at […]
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10 kilometers into my leg of Sinister 7, I wondered how in the world I could be THAT sweaty. Sure, it was a sweltering day in Crowsnest Pass, but how can a woman sweat so much that it drips down her legs and literally pours off of her like a mini Niagara Falls? She can’t. Or at […]
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The Price of Fear
As soon as spring comes I am one of those ridiculous people who has their road bike out in the slush riding alongside the runners in shorts just because it is finally ‘hot‘. Or the woman on the mountain bike who is poised at the top of a trail in the valley which is currently […]
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As soon as spring comes I am one of those ridiculous people who has their road bike out in the slush riding alongside the runners in shorts just because it is finally ‘hot‘. Or the woman on the mountain bike who is poised at the top of a trail in the valley which is currently […]
Published at Donloree
The Price of Fear
As soon as spring comes I am one of those ridiculous people who has their road bike out in the slush riding alongside the runners in shorts just because it is finally ‘hot‘. Or the woman on the mountain bike who is poised at the top of a trail in the valley which is currently […]
Published at Donloree
As soon as spring comes I am one of those ridiculous people who has their road bike out in the slush riding alongside the runners in shorts just because it is finally ‘hot‘. Or the woman on the mountain bike who is poised at the top of a trail in the valley which is currently […]
Published at Donloree
