Nicole, a local nutritionist and the co-author of the book we’re working on regarding overall health and emotional attachments to food, came by my place on Wednesday so that we could work on the book. We ended up spending 6.5 hours working on the book (and on another project we feel passionate about – more [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Life Lessons category.
How to Pack a Suitcase or Backpack
Don’t forget to enter to win my Smarty had a Party giveaway! Packing a bag for travelling purposes can be quite a bit of fun – it’s a puzzle to try to get all of the things we want to take into a bag that we can easily carry with us. I’ve learned how to [...]
Working from Home
Shop on Open Sky I now have my very own Open Sky store! Check it out by clicking on my Shop Healthy page. Peruse the items and let me know if you have any questions – I’d be happy to elaborate on the awesomeness of the products that I sell. These are all items that [...]
Creating your own Health Insurance
Don’t forget to enter to win my Colgate giveaway! Managing Good Health At the BlogHer 2010 NYC conference that I attended last week, I met several bloggers who lamented the way that health care systems work and the expense involved for getting medical tests. There might not be a whole lot that people can do [...]
BlogHer 2010 Conference Recap
Don’t forget to answer this month’s blogging/journaling poll and be sure to enter to win the honey giveaway! I still have another day left in New York City to explore and adventure, but the BlogHer conference is now over – and what a conference it was! Friday morning began with a 5k walk around Central [...]
The Big Apple
Don’t forget to answer this month’s blogging/journaling poll and be sure to enter to win the honey giveaway! Living Healthy in New York City After waking up far too early on Wednesday morning, I caught a plane to New York City. Between napping, reading, and eating a sandwich, I started sorting out my BlogHer conference [...]
Portion Distortion
One of the fun new toys that I received as a house-warming gift was a digital kitchen scale. Squee! I’ve always wanted one of them. I like being able to measure out food gram for gram. This will also make life much easier when trying to cook from a Nigella Lawson book (trying to convert [...]
Life Lessons: A Reflection on Passions
Because it was Canada Day on Thursday, I was able to score a four-day weekend. It was wonderful to have four lovely long days to myself, especially because the weather was beautiful. With the boyfriend out of town doing fieldwork, I occupied my time with plenty of writing. I have been working on a healthy [...]
What I Learned from University
Today I am picking up my university diploma. I opted for a simple 3-year Bachelor of Arts. I want a career in editing and writing, and that is something that you really learn a lot more from experience rather than from spending years upon years in university studying. The degree itself is in Rhetoric, Writing, [...]
Feeling like a fraud
I’m a health columnist and health blogger. Friends and strangers come to me asking for nutrition and fitness advice. I routinely set up health challenges and read health books and articles of all varieties on a regular basis. Yet: I still struggle with my emotional attachments to food. Three and a half weeks ago, I [...]
