Ah, San Diego. Prior to visiting the city, the only things I associated with San Diego were the zoo and Anchorman. But after my (too short) vacation there, I would not hesitate to recommend it as a Nice Place to Visit. I was pleasantly surprised by the clean streets – Toronto’s a pig sty compared to San Diego – although there was a distinctive lack of […]
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Ready to run
March 20th, 2011
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I’ve taken up running. The news elicits jubilation from other seasoned runners and quizzical looks from non-runners. (Plus some WTF?! faces when I run in minus-15 degree weather.) What started as a New Year’s resolution-y thing has become a bit of an obsession with me. I am proud that I lasted the entire ten weeks of the Running Room’s Learn to […]
“Lie Back and Think of England”: A G20 Summit Survival Guide
June 28th, 2010
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This past weekend, while I was visiting my parents in St. Catharines, I watched televised scenes of police cars on fire, thugs in black smashing storefront windows and cops in riot gear beating and arresting protesters. After I realized it wasn’t a movie (what? I had just woken up), that it was happening in my beloved Toronto, my stomach knotted up in […]
Love the One You’re With
August 19th, 2009
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A friend recently sent me an article called “Why I’m Alone”. It is a response by Huffington Post columnist Lea Lane to the question she is often asked in the years following the death of her husband: Why is she still alone? Why doesn’t she date much? While I’ve never loved and lost like Ms. Lane, I can […]
I’m so red-faced…
June 22nd, 2009
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…because I am embarrassed. I have the worst case of sunburn in recent memory. When I was young, before there was talk of depleting ozone layers and melanoma, my 14-year-old self would slather on baby oil and bake in the sun. When I was 30 years old, I would visit a tanning salon to acquire a ‘base tan’ before spending days baking under the Mediterranean sun. Born with […]
