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Getting to maybe
Dear iBreathe, It’s Saturday morning. I got up early: I have only 48 hours before I need to publish a post on Monday morning. I don’t know what to write about. Everyone else is so clever and has such...
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The slant of my lists: 2012
For someone with little spare time I make a lot of lists. Lists keep me focused, goal-oriented, and pat me on the back as I scratch out another item as complete. Sometimes I will do something, write it...
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Christmas, a day early
Today is Christmas for me. My family is from the Czech Republic and growing up we celebrated Christmas on Christmas eve. I enjoyed this. It was festivities and celebrations and you went to bed weary...
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As we whiz, there’s quiet
I am going to sneak out this post while most of you are sitting down to eat dinner. There may be turkey and stuffing and gravy and buttery vegetables (or buttery other things). There may be friends or...
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And the year was…
This year I am not waiting. I find that after the Christmas holiday festivities are done, thoughts turn to the New Year. New Year’s Eve is approaching: what will you change? I am not one for New Year’s...
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My kid is transitioning
My kid is becoming a vegetarian. She is 9 1/2 years old, about the same age I was when I stopped eating meat. My reasons for becoming a vegetarian were pretty simple. At a very young age I hid meat...
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Week 52. Light.
It’s starting to feel like daylight is creeping back. I don’t do well without sleep or Vitamin D, both of which are harder to come by in the winter months. Now that solstice has passed we are slowly...
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When SAD hits the conditional
This time of year is winter here on the west coast of Canada. I live in a strange micro-climate where we are known as the wet coast because of the amount of rain we receive. We sometimes get one day of...
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Starting over
I don’t know if he remembered to breathe. Or to take a breath. Sometimes things happen so fast that your body just reacts. You don’t think to close your mouth when a gust of wind blows at you. You...
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The real-time canonical collection
One day, yesterday, whilst skimming along on Facebook I came across an astute comment. It was by a fabulous and funny blogger I follow. She wrote, “I really need to scroll through Facebook before I...
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