Archive for the ‘Wild Women’ Category

Phantom trail run best race ever

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Some of you might be wondering how the Phantom Trail Race on November 12 went. I must say, it was one of the best races I've ever run. It was as if I had my own personal race course set up for me in the forest, with an aid station, ...

Wearing no clothes makes you run faster

Sunday, October 16th, 2011

Now I know why some of my friends who are really good runners wear hardly any clothes! I'm not talking about streaking, exactly, though I remember that was a really popular activity when I was a kid. I'm talking about my observation that the friends I've run with who are ...

Pledge page ready for your piddly donation

Sunday, October 2nd, 2011

Not that it has to be piddly. But I am hoping that 20 of my friends will pledge 50 cents a day. That means if I do yoga for all 30 days, meeting the Reach Out Challenge, your donation would be $15. (In case you didn't read my last entry, ...

In love with the night – night running, that is

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Just back from an amazing full moon trail run along the Burrard Inlet. Once again I am in love with the night and with night running. Night runs are the special ones. They usually happen when life is so busy I have to just push against the limits and boundaries ...

Addicted to stress

Sunday, April 10th, 2011

Taking a brief detour from the journey to Boulder, Colorado, I want to tell you today about [Vancouver doctor, researcher, Buddhist, music-lover] Gabor Maté's book When the Body Says No. He explores the relationship between stress and illness, and in this passage, describes how stress can be addictive: For those habituated ...

ChiRunning and Yoga at BC Wilderness Visions

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

July 16-17, 2011 - CANCELLED $349 includes teaching fees and delicious organic vegetarian lunch, snacks, and tea Location: Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve, North Vancouver 9:30 - 4:30, Saturday & Sunday Guides: Angela and Karen are teaming up for the second year in a row. For a glimpse into the awesome time had by all ...

You are what you eat—sort of!

Friday, November 26th, 2010

As you may recall, I have explored the subject of anger from many different perspectives—anger as it relates to the essential aspect of strength; anger arising from psychological issues; anger as a defense mechanism and a character trait. I have personally worked on my own anger many times during nature ...

Part 5: Ceremony for owl and the wild ones

Sunday, November 21st, 2010

As I have mentioned previously, a wise wild woman suggested that the great grey owls I encountered this summer were angry. I considered her interpretation of the events, and decided to follow her suggestion of performing a ceremony to let the owls know of my good intentions. I have long been ...

November is novel writing month!

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

I have come to Monkey Valley for the month of November to work on a writing project that I’ve had in mind since September 2007. It has taken a while to get up to speed with this project; I’ll tell you more about that later. But the cool thing is ...

Goodbye to Donald

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

I have been putting off writing this posting, but the time has come. Visitors to Monkey Valley will be sad to learn that Donald the cat has gone. He disappeared while I was at a retreat in California in August. He has been missing for two and a half months ...