Every culture has it’s form of bread. It would be impossible to name how bread is made and eaten. Guyana is no different. There are several ethnic groups which make up the peoples of Guyana, and each of them have some form of bread appreciated by all Guyanese. That’s the beauty of respecting and blending […]
Read MoreThis is a gratitude post, gratitude for so many things I take for granted: family, friends, health, food, and most of all, time. Over the last few months, the world as most of us know it has been turned on its axis in ways unimaginable to us. There is so much uncertainty about the future […]
Read MoreThere is a saying about time flying when you’re having fun. I must be having fun because three weeks have gone by very quickly! My first class teaching urban poling since my instructor certification was three week ago. My “students” are all members of Pembina Active Living (55+) in my end of town. Twelve participants […]
Read MoreIf you live in the tropics for any length of time, you know that the ubiquitous coconut is on every street corner and in every home. It takes so long for Nature to grow a coconut (which is just a big seed) into a mature tree that to desecrate “the Tree of Life,” as it […]
Read MoreMy first attempt at urban poling My first experience at urban poling was not a good one. As I am writing this post, I can almost relive the day, full of embarrassment. It was the middle of summer and had done my research and bought my the poles I wanted. I had practiced in my […]
Read MoreIn the last two years, I’ve been trying several keto bread recipes with some degree of success. Generally, it’s good, but the texture to me is more like a cross between a bread and a cake, but I just feel it’s not as sturdy for a sandwich (which I don’t often eat anyway) as I […]
Read MoreToday was a shorter walk day from Furneaux Lodge to Punga Cove (about 4 hours) and it was overcast and raining lightly when we woke up so we decided to wait to see if it would stop before we started our walk. We had our breakfast and went off to the dining room to collect […]
Read MoreToday was the start of our long, 5-day, 71 km walk along the Queen Charlotte Track. I heard about the track in 2013 from a woman was a member of Prairie Pathfinders Walking Club in Winnipeg. I had studied the route map many times over the course of the last year. We decided to go with […]
Read MoreScheduled for today was a short hike in preparation for the next five days but that did not happen. For one thing, my brain was tired from days, weeks really, of planning every detail of this trip and now executing it. While my body was willing, my mind was resisting. Plus, last night on our […]
Read MoreEarly start this morning at 5:00 am to be ready for the shuttle to pick us up at 6:00am to take us to the Christchurch Railway Station. We checked out of our cute little home for the last 4 days and waited for the shuttle at 5:55am. By 6:15, it still had not arrived and […]
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