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Voted Popular Blog Post: View All Popular Posts Stop Aiming to be Special
Wednesday, January 01, 2020      44 comments

barbarapatterson.com/201
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special-live-an-extraordin
ary-life/?inf_contact_key=
6439eb8f214e0c22216e977ab518451e I liked this blog by Barbara Patterson. She suggests that the pursuit of... Read more
Voted Popular Blog Post: View All Popular Posts 20/20 Vision!
Tuesday, December 31, 2019      48 comments

It's New Year's Eve . . . and 2020 is coming right up!! But 2020 is relatively new to my ears, and for now it still "sounds like" 20/20 -- what we customarily think of (at least in North American) as "perfect vision". So as I'm think... Read more
Voted Popular Blog Post: View All Popular Posts Never Say Never . . .
Monday, December 30, 2019      36 comments

As I blogged recently, I really wasn't planning to change up my workouts!! I was OK with just continuing my program of four sets of ten pushups, situps, mountain climbers and squats. Plus my yoga stretch/balance/stability routine. Varying temp... Read more
Voted Popular Blog Post: View All Popular Posts Maple Walnut Butter Tarts
Sunday, December 29, 2019      41 comments

Butter tarts are a Canadian thing. Now there are butter tart competitions and butter tart tasting trails and butter tarts sold at Christmas church bazaars and butter tart tourism. For a conventional butter tart the pastry is filled with... Read more
Voted Popular Blog Post: View All Popular Posts Looking Down the Driveway . . .
Saturday, December 28, 2019      37 comments

Yes, Henry loves to stand on his hind legs and look down the driveway. To see who's coming!! Or to say goodbye to somebody who's leaving!!! ... Read more
Voted Popular Blog Post: View All Popular Posts Henry's First Christmas
Thursday, December 26, 2019      46 comments

What a lovely day. Sorry I was unable to take any Henry pictures for his fan club -- there is something wrong with my elderly iPhone camera... Read more
Merry Christmas!!
Wednesday, December 25, 2019      33 comments

Winter Morning, Charlevoix County, by A.Y. Jackson -- one of my favourite members of Canada's Group of Seven painters. Painted about 1933. ... Read more
Christmas Prep . . . .
Tuesday, December 24, 2019      33 comments

All is unfolding as it should!! Yesterday I completed the wrapping. Did not buy much, but there are a few gifts for each of us, in matching plaid wrapping paper and a little ribbon and a few bows and my copious application of tape . . . wai... Read more
Voted Popular Blog Post: View All Popular Posts Obesity Education
Monday, December 23, 2019      37 comments

Intuitive eating is about eating good, whole foods for optimal nutrition when we're hungry and stopping when we're full. Last night I got part way through my serving of a small baked potato with steamed carrots and broccoli and an egg whit... Read more
Voted Popular Blog Post: View All Popular Posts The darkest evening of the year . . .
Sunday, December 22, 2019      39 comments

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop w... Read more
Voted Popular Blog Post: View All Popular Posts Continuous Self Improvement
Saturday, December 21, 2019      51 comments

The comments on yesterday's blog really got me thinking. And in particular ONEKIDSMOM who wrote, "I've long pondered the wisdom of the concept of "continuous improvement", myself, as there is a burn-out point, whether we are talking abou... Read more
Voted Popular Blog Post: View All Popular Posts Changing Up My Fitness Routine?
Friday, December 20, 2019      34 comments

Hmmm. That question came up on Trivia this morning and of course I answered it "correctly": i.e., that it's necessary to change up our regular routines to increase fitness etc. After all, I'd like to get "Trivia A" status this mont... Read more
Snowy and Blowy
Thursday, December 19, 2019      32 comments

I had a thoughtful call late yesterday afternoon from a client cancelling an appointment set for today -- because of forecast blowing snow. This client works in emergency services and was well aware of the impact for driving conditions. ... Read more
Voted Popular Blog Post: View All Popular Posts Cooperation!!
Wednesday, December 18, 2019      26 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=
gnmjvj8P934 I just love the "dog scientist" series and there's a new one -- Albert and Delta are figuring out how to retrieve balls (which can be then inserted into a "treat machine" for a reward)... Read more
Voted Popular Blog Post: View All Popular Posts Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Tuesday, December 17, 2019      30 comments

No -- not the Joan Didion collection of essays which borrows this phrase as its title. The original William Butler Yeats poem written in 1919 -- at a time of terrible political turmoil in Ireland. Are we in terrible times? Is it human... Read more

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