Posted in adventure, handmade, home, travel on November 4, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Our hard work paid off. The “Terrifying Tortes” party was a big success. Altogether, we raised $1100 to help the grandmothers and orphans struggling with the AIDS crisis in Africa, more than twice our goal.
Now for a little time to glory in our workmanship.
The Doboschtorte. An incredible Hungarian cake made of 10 [...]
Posted in adventure, handmade, home, travel on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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You are cordially invited to an evening of elegant desserts and interesting conversation. Except that you can’t come because you’re my far-flung friends. Instead we offer a trade. We dare you to be part of our Dare To Dine event.
We’re proud and excited to be hosting an evening that is part of 1,000 dinners across [...]
Posted in A Quote and a Question, adventure, quotes, travel on October 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
Samuel Johnson
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Can we? What? Who? How? Is it really? Why? Why not?
Posted in A Quote and a Question, quotes, travel on October 6, 2009 | 11 Comments »
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It is so much more interesting to be imperfect than it is to be perfect.
Dr. Christian Sorensen
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If perfection isn’t even the point, why do we lift it up as though it were?
Posted in adventure, travel on September 14, 2009 | 8 Comments »
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Last race of the season. Rainer did the full, hoping to qualify for Boston. That wasn’t in the cards, but he had his second fastest marathon time. I did the half. I woke with a headache and had a hard day but really pushed myself. I left it all on the course, as they say. [...]
Posted in adventure, travel on August 17, 2009 | 27 Comments »
Sandra had held up her end of the deal, and now it was my turn.
The weather was very…weather.
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But we suited up anyway.
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The 24 of us doing the Try-A-Tri distance faced west along the beach, heading to a bright pink buoy 150m away. The sprint distance got ready at the same time, heading out into [...]
Posted in adventure, parenting, travel on July 23, 2009 | 9 Comments »
There’s a family of fairly serious triathletes here in Manitoba that has a license plate which reads: WE TRI. As a woman who chose “Adventure” as her word-of-the-year last year and who likes puns, I really dig that.
This summer, we’re tri-ing, too. That’s nothing new for Rainer and Tias, our intrepid multi-sport men.
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1. On your [...]
Posted in adventure, travel on July 21, 2009 | 20 Comments »
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Camping food is problematic, isn’t it? There’s keeping it cool, then the extra steps you have to go through to prepare it; there’s the extraordinary level of hunger camping produces (even without the hours of running, swimming, cycling and hiking we do), and the storage issue when everything you need for days on end has [...]
Posted in adventure, handmade, parenting, travel on July 17, 2009 | 22 Comments »
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A little art book of parenting quotes left in the campground bathroom.
I took several of these with me and had plans to leave them all behind. It was hard. I felt…overly prideful, somehow…stupid. Who was I to think someone would want my quotes, my doodles, my still-new cursive? What had seemed like [...]
Posted in A Quote and a Question, adventure, quotes, travel on July 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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“The real news of our lives is not in newspapers. We must chronicle our own adventures and achievements, our brilliant observations and our comic relief, our best friends and our greatest embarrassments.” Woods and Dinino (in Visual Chronicles)
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