Archive for the ‘Wild Women’ Category

Running into the mystic

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

I swear I was about to run through a rainbow today. There it was, just ahead of me, spanning from the North Shore across the Burrard Inlet and just to the right side of the trail I was running on. It was only about 500 metres away, tops. The colours ...

Vancouver marathon 2010, here I come!

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

I did it! As I mentioned previously, this past week was my last chance to get my act together for the Vancouver marathon 2010. It was a rest week, with 3 short runs, culminating with today's 3 hour and 51 minute trial! That's right—almost 4 hours of non-stop running. I ...

Going for the gold – the gold of inner truth!

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

The good news is I started a new technical writing contract! The bad news is I have totally bombed on my Vancouver marathon training schedule. During the past few weeks, with preparing for the interviews, interviewing, preparing for the job, and working, I have missed 26K one week, 33K the ...

Chi running

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Before I finish the story of my trip to California and the medicine walk I took, I want to tell you about the chi running workshop I went to last weekend. Angela James taught the workshop. She is the only certified chi running trainer in Vancouver. Danny and Katherine Dryer ...

Taking the time to care for the hurt self

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

I have been describing a process of exploration and healing that occurred on a medicine walk in Eureka Valley. There is one more piece to the puzzle that arose as I explored my intention with Ruth and Larry. I've already talked about the defense of anger, and how I was ...

Final post-script: Another perfect pedicure

Friday, August 28th, 2009

I wrote previously about Conflict resolution and perfect pedicures, and I want to let you know how that story turned out. I recently went to the 10-day Diamond Approach summer retreat in California, and before flying south I returned to the spa where I had experienced the traumatic, injury-producing pedicure. True ...

Madame Moose strides again

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

On a run at Monkey Valley recently, a magical thing happened. I was running up the road, and saw a magnificent female moose in the meadow beside the road. She saw me too, we looked at each other for a little, and then she moved away up the hill. I felt awe ...

Wild Vancouver nights

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Last night I went for another run and skinny dip in the Seymour River. This time I went down the Twin Bridges trail, which is closed for trail work. I felt worried as I ran down the trail and saw that they are widening it and gravelling it. The sign ...

Red wheel rolling

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

I was driving over the Second Narrows bridge tonight, feeling high from a run by and skinny dip in the Seymour River. It was dusk, but the street lights hadn't come on yet on the north side of the bridge. I was groovin' on Led Zeppelin, as I am wont ...

Postscript to perfect pedicure: parking ticket!

Monday, June 1st, 2009

That about sums it up. The incident I mentioned earlier about the unsatisfactory pedicure had a reverberation through time, namely a $75 parking ticket. The appointment had run over the scheduled time (torture can be time consuming), and my parking had run out. Unbeknownst to me, because the ticket wasn't ...