A couple nights ago my husband (Morgan) and I went to a “meet and greet” for volunteers for the Blue Dot Campaign. We met with one of the town councilors on Coquitlam’s board. Coquitlam is the last and toughest of towns near Vancouver to adopt Canadians’ right to a healthy environment. There’s a lot of …
First, I have made the astonishing discovery that runners and others who exercise outdoors have made for years, and that is the magic of electrolytes. In one of my last posts in the blog I was having a tough-go of running in the heat, but putting some potassium and sodium into my diet on the …
This post contains some spoilers about the movie Tomorrowland. Last night, after a great run, we went with a group of friends to see the movie Tomorrowland, starring George Clooney, Raffey Cassidy (she deserves an Oscar), Britt Robertson, and Hugh Laurie. At the end of April I posted in our nature writing and art group …
It feels like summer already, though we still have nearly a month before summer officially begins. Just having begun my fourth week in the 10K training program I am wondering if I chose the wrong time of the year to do this. Not that it’s even too hot yet. We’re getting up to the mid …
I have been offsite for about a week and have three upcoming interviews and a few books to add, so I am a little behind. I was not quite ready for a week that would prove to be very hectic–but one in which I did not cease my running schedule. If anything, this past week …
The movie Tracks, based on Robyn Davidson, who trekked on foot across Australia in the 1970s, is now on Netflix. I watched it over the weekend and was so inspired by this woman who made this journey with her dog Diggity and four camels. The trek was long and looked very tough, but the sweet …
Today’s running post will be on the front page. What you’ll find in this blog is my story of deciding to run, and then running. I tie in this wonderful outdoor experience with many thoughts that relate to literature and the environment as well as documenting what it’s like to be running in this space …
Back in 2013, before I was running, I did the run-walk fun run version of this race, but this time, having run regularly for 7 months now, I was able to do the run version of the Vancouver Sun Run. However, halfway in, I had an IT band injury somehow but still got six personal …
It’s that time of year again for the Boston Marathon. I read an interesting article, from UMass Lowell, about how students are monitoring weather during the marathon each year in order to characterize climatology of the race so they can survey how weather affects runners. It’s a science project for college students interested in weather–and …
About a year ago I began to write a new novel about an oil spill, based on a fictional tar sands oil pipeline going through eastern Kentucky. But this year has been busy with more books than normal being published at my press, the upkeep of this site, and continued monitoring of our community discussion …