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Are New Year’s resolutions harmful to your health?
The New Year seems like the perfect time to start with a clean slate and commit to making healthy changes in your life by making a resolution. According to research published in the Journal of Clinical...
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Three Secrets to Good Health
You may wonder what my background is that makes me knowledgeable to blog about health and fitness. Well just to set the record straight, I’m not a fitness consultant or registered nutritionist or...
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Saving The World, One Valentine’s Day at a Time
Saving the World, One Valentine's Day at a Time I LOVE BEING SINGLE. No, seriously. I really love being single. And not in that knee-jerk-look-at-me-I’m-so-Carrie-Bradshaw type way. And not in that...
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The introduction to the introduction
After almost three years of writing a column that’s accompanied by a custom illustration, I got to see the wonderful work of my cartoonist come to life in a whole new way this week. With two years of...
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A Little Girl, A Perfect Dream, and Real Life.
Dancing wherever they go and commanding attention, glowing with sparkles and sequins; a popular and simple pleasure for many little girls is to get dressed up with frills and lace, experimenting with...
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A Year of Happiness
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer In December I got some news regarding my son’s health I had suspected for several...
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Why Nature Makes Us Naturally Happy
The runner abandons the concrete road and takes to the mountain trails. A depressed woman finds pleasure in taking beautiful photographs of flowers. A man sits in his car with a coffee watching and...
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Be Happy! Learn to Live More in the Moment
Ever wonder why kids often seem happy without trying? They know something adults quickly forget–the beauty of living in the moment. Even the experts agree living in the moment is one of the...
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Run#25 Feb 17 – Buntzen Lake 10.4K
Buntzen Lake This morning, I decided to get up early and go out to Buntzen Lake to do my long run. It’s essentially a mountain trail run around a lake up in the mountains above Port Moody. A fellow...
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Run#26 Feb 19 – Blue Mountain and Robinson Memorial Park 5.1K
Blue Mountain Park I wondered if I would even run today, first thing this morning. My head was hurting and my ears were ringing. It was a stark reminder that I am still dealing with my chronic...
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Run#27 Feb 20 – Centennial Oval Track 5K
Centennial Secondary School Oval I was pondering where to run this morning after dropping the kids at school. It was a cold, dark, grey morning and the rain seemed almost sleet at times. I was thinking...
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Run#28 Feb 23 – Dawes Hill 3.2K
Dawes Hill I only had time for a short neighbourhood run this morning but it was certainly a memorable one, all right. I powered up a hill that made ‘Heart Attack Hill’ in Mundy Park look like a speed...
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Run#29 Feb 24 – Stanley Park Seawall 10.2K
Stanley Park seawall You may recall that after my last run, I promised myself that I would pick a nice long run that was a bit different this week. Somewhere that’s even a bit wild! Well, there’s one...
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Run#30 Feb 27 – Brunette-Fraser 8.7K
Fraser River – New Westminster, BC My dear father-in-law Carl, whose health has been poor since Christmas, and had deteriorated rapidly since last Friday, passed away peacefully in the early hours of...
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What’s Up with International Day of Happiness?
Is it so hard to be happy that we have to have a special day dedicated to being happy? Well, apparently we do. Three years ago the United Nations established March 20 as the International Day of...
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Vancouverites are the least happy in the country, survey finds
Vancouverites have knocked themselves off their West Coast pedestal. According to a Statistics Canada report released on Monday, Vancouver is home to the least happy Canadians. Quebec’s Sanguenay was...
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