I have had some time to think about my experience in Canada after falling and injuring myself and thus ending up in the emergency room at the Port Hardy Primary Health Care Center. There is always that talk about the difference between American and Canadian health care and I had a chance to experience it…
Paleo Mocha Nut Butter (And My Bone Health)
Jump to the recipe… Those people who know me know that when it comes to health, I always strive to start with nutrition. The only thing my doctor had to say about nutrition when I asked about how to take care of myself after breaking my shoulder was to make sure I was getting enough…
Stone Age Bread and Squirrels
Jump to the recipe… This is going to be harder than I thought. Turns out, I am having a hard time doing a lot of the things that make me happy, not just hiking and being outdoors. Aside from simply being exhausted from recovery, by the end of the day I am not accomplishing much…
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Isn’t that what ol’ Jagger said? I write a post about my strong need for solitude and to feel alive, then I hop in the car and head up to a remote trail on the northern tip of Vancouver Island to spend some time in the wild with my thoughts. I start…
Beauty: Salve For The Soul
744. That is how many clicks I have had on my last post, She Died Doing What I Love, since July 14th. I have been blogging since January 6th of 2016 and I have published 185 posts in that time. None of them even come close to having that kind of response. The closest is…
She Died Doing What I Love
I got home late last yesterday from a hike. Nothing special about that. Except this hike was with my sister Kristen, her sister-in-law Molly and my niece Meaghan and we were hiking on the trail to Sauk Mountain to look for the belongings of their mother-in-law and nana who fell to her death on July 11, 2017…