It can be difficult to figure out what to take with you on a multi-day hiking trip, particularly in terms of food, unless of course you are content consuming “space rations” the entire time. Keeping in mind that you have to carry everything on your back, you do have to be selective about what will [...]
For months I’ve been pondering and planning a multi-day hiking trip in the backcountry of Banff. Aiden and I picked up a copy of Backcountry Banff by Mike Potter, and spent more than a few hours pouring over the pages, discussing the pros and cons of various trails. Jack eagerly agreed that a hiking trip [...]
Out of all the posts I’ve written describing our family or household, I think this quote is my absolute favorite, and probably the most precisely accurate of anything I’ve ever put up here: Often our house feels like a three-ring circus, with children and dogs leaping about, talking or barking at full volume, all four [...]
I don’t know how many of you read PostSecret every Sunday, but it’s been something of a weekly ritual here for years. One of the items on my Life List is to send in a postcard at some point. While I haven’t yet made time for that particular list item, I *have* left a note [...]
I think that perhaps I am finding myself again, a little at a time. Yesterday was particularly wretched, but by the end of it, I felt better, and more like “The Old Shasta”. I’ve wanted to write here a number of times, but it feels increasingly public, and while I don’t want to end up [...]
As badly as I wanted to move back to Alberta, and as happy as I am to be here, for some reason I feel…not quite myself since we got here. I haven’t been sleeping well, I’m edgier, more easily agitated, noticeably more negative in my attitude. I don’t feel like I have been handling things, stress in particular, [...]
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