Healthy Living Myths Busted by Timothy Caulfield
The Cure for Everything by Timothy Caulfield is written for those who are tired of the weight loss and fitness mumbo jumbo that floats around the internet and who are eager to know the science behind healthy. As a woman who grew up in image overload years of the 1990s and '00s, I have experienced the ...
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Homemade Raspberry-Blueberry Jam
There is a perk/downside to having a blog and that is the ability of viewing and analyzing my website statistics. When I first started my blog, I was completely obsessed. Then, I gave up looking at them because it was time consuming and drove me mad. It was like participating in a popularity contest ...
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Valuable Work Lessons from an Astronaut
I don't like audiobooks. Here's why. The first audiobook I ever borrowed from the library was Bossypants by Tina Fey. I was pumped to hear Tina narrate her own book because I loved her in 30 Rock. However, I had to throw in the towel when she started talking about her first menstruation by chapter ...
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Hiking Trip: Ha Ling Peak and Raven’s End in Canmore
Canmore is a wonderland of outdoor adventure. It has a perfect balance of characteristics to create a relaxing and rejuvenating weekend trip. What are these qualities? Well, let me give you the 4-1-1 (Ya, it's still the 1990's for my casual-slang language): A wide variety of outdoor activities: ...
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Hitchhiking Women: Courageous or Crazyness?
I just returned from a week in the Rocky Mountains and I noticed there were quite a few hitch hikers. The majority were men but there was one woman, outside of Jasper, Alberta, with two large suitcases, looking put together, clean, and glamourous with oversized, round, Lady Gaga-esque sunglasses. There ...
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Microbrewery Bike Tour in Montreal
If you go to Montreal the best thing you can do is to rent a Bixi bike and hit the streets in search of craft beers. [caption id="attachment_2033" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Montreal Skyline from Mount Royal[/caption] Conveniently, my better half has created a map of our microbrew pub crawl so ...
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Montreal: Osheaga Festival and Hipsters
A couple weeks ago, Billy and I hopped on a plane to Montreal. Reflecting on our trip, I can't think of a more opposite city compared to where I live now (near Red Deer, AB). One is primarily French, the other English. Montreal is bohemian. Red Deer is hardworking oilpatch city. Montreal is consumed ...
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