Ada Boulevard in Edmonton’s Highlands neighbourhood is a popular place for walking and jogging. The area was developed over a hundred years ago and has beautiful houses all along the north side of the road. It is also the location of Concordia University, the McGrath Mansion, and the best treehouse I have ever seen. I […]
When not looking at my feet and trying to avoid ice today, I saw some sights that made me smile including some balloons, a snowman with an icicle crown, a garbage can eating a spider, and a very Canadian mitten. After being in quarantine for two weeks and being housebound because of the cold weather, […]
Usually, I listen to music when I work out. Today, though, I didn’t have my iPhone with me at the gym, so I was forced to listen to my own thoughts while walking around the track and peddling on the exercise bike. They are not great thoughts. It’s now 12:38 so I can stop walking […]
There are a lot of older women who could afford to lose a few pounds, but you’d never know it to look at the exercise equipment at the gym. All the images on the machines there are of young white men in very good physical shape. In fact, if you are looking at the pictures […]
Sometimes, if I don’t have something planned for my day, I do absolutely nothing. I sit on the couch and watch movies on TV while noodling about on my laptop computer. I suppose I could justify it by saying I’m networking and reading the news, but really I’m being totally idle, and the longer I […]
There’s an exercise franchise that I quite like. It uses a variety of exercise machines placed in a circle, and members spend a minute at each station. Genius. Fifteen stations, one minute each, twice; half an hour and we’re done. Bingo. Exercise guilt assuaged. The trouble is it comes with some staff who, it seems, […]
Breathing in, deeply, makes me feel good. I just came from an exercise class and after the aerobics, the hand weights, and the floor exercises, we breathe deeply. To be honest, the part of the class I like best is the very end when about twenty-five people over fifty have to carefully and with restrained […]
Snowbird of Paradise 