As a Canadian, I wasn’t aware that there was a day of recognition for individual women, long-time girlfriends, and their collective health – but there is, and it’s called National Girlfriends Day. It’s an ‘unofficial’ national holiday on August 1st each year in the United States, and I think that it’s a great initiative to remind…
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Steinbeck, John. (1993, 1937). Of Mice and Men. Bantam Books; New York. As the rains pour down outside my window, I sit down to pen a review of this short but poignant novel – and how appropriate the weather is! It is a dark story chronicling the story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two friends…
The Joys of Walking
While dog, cat, and house sitting this weekend, I took the time to go out for a really long and meditative walk. Walking has always been one of my greatest pleasures and most enjoyable pastimes. All it requires is that I put on sturdy walking shoes, season-appropriate clothing, and a thoughtful mindset. In return, I…
Fitness (Re)fresh
On this rainy, lazy day, I’m working to shake off the last vestiges of a cold that has plagued me for some days now. As with many of the colds I’ve recently sustained, it hasn’t involved anything more terrible than a general feeling of tiredness and malaise. To turn things around, I’m reading and planning…
The “Perfect” Woman?
Labels. They are both universally feared and selectively applied to people around the world, across and between cultures. Labels have the power to unite and divide friends, families, and social cliques. While this may be a bit of a grandiose statement, it’s the only response I could muster to this CTVNews video on Canada’s “perfect” woman…
Signs, Signs, Everywhere the Signs
Sometimes in life, you just gotta read the signs. After my PARE test last night, I am reading the signs available to me and reevaluating once again where I want to go next in life. The test definitely illustrated to me the bald fact that I am, sadly, a petite and short individual. I had…
Training for Employment
Today I’ll be participating in my first Physical Abilities Requirement Evaluation (PARE) test, as a single component of my ongoing application to be a park warden with the Federal Government. I’m nervous, but have many supporters and cheerleaders behind me, so I am simply going to do my best. I first saw the posting for…
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