mardi gras and starting my sabbatical

I took advantage of the fact that today was Mardi Gras – it gave me a reason (excuse) to indulge in some of the delicious chocolates I got yesterday as goodbyes were said on my last day of work until September. It was kind of bittersweet (the day, not the chocolates) as I am [...]

fais do do

I’m not just imagining it – my desire for more sleep in the winter can be traced back to my ancestors:
But the French seem to have been particularly sleepy. They “hibernated” even in temperate zones. In Burgundy, after the wine harvest, the workers burned the vine stocks, repaired their tools and left the land to [...]

alignment, part deux

Tuesday’s post about synchronicity, dharma, Grace or what you will, was titled “alignment” and someone emailed me to ask why. Well- I had a longer post in mind and never got around to the part that had to do with alignment. Which turned out to be a good thing, cause Kimberly left a comment [...]

for my favourite dixie chick

My friend Andrea is going through a rough time. She has a Friday tradition at her blog of posting a random playlist of songs from her ipod – so I thought I’d like to post a playlist for Andrea today.
And I’ll start with this one:

and the rest:
You oughta know – Alanis [...]

border crossings

Tomorrow morning I hop on a boat and sail to America.  Sounds exotic/adventurous/18th century. It isn’t, really.  But I can’t help but be excited.  The Canadian dollar is worth more than the American dollar – which has never happened in all the years I’ve been going down there. There were even years that I would [...]

bitter and so sweet

Poetry juices up my life. Here is a poem from the October 2007 issue of Walrus written by Karen Connelly who just recently won the Orange Prize for her novel The Lizard Cage.  Karen is just slightly younger than me, and I have been following her since she hit the literary scene in her early [...]

meme me up, scotty

I kind of freaked out and stopped posting when I realized there were people actually reading. The whole perfection paralysis thing Churchill talked about.
But I’m over it. I think. And to force myself to get back up on that horse, I’m going to jump on this bandwagon (cause I’m never going to do the crazy [...]

neuroplasticity

One piece of the puzzle that could point me toward walking down a different street may be found in the neural web of my brain. This occurred to me as I was listening to David Sousa talk about how the brain learns at an education conference in January. His two big themes were how [...]