Turn the clocks forward an hour before you hit the hay tonight. Ah, that seems so simple. But anyone with kids knows that throwing the sleep schedule off by an hour is... a big deal. (Anyone without kids is probably rejoicing because you'll get an extra hour of sleep.) I trawled the internet to find … Continue reading Spring Forward Tonight (and some Survival Strategies for adjusting the kids to daylight saving)
The Pemberton & District Community Centre Spring Leisure Guide is out now. Copies are available at the front desk, or downloadable here - Final Copy Spring 2015-1 Spring Registration begins Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 9 am. Registration is on a first come first serve basis. Registration numbers will be issued starting at 6 am. Customers … Continue reading Spring Recreation Guide now out
Go outside and look up! It might be a mini-moon (according to earthsky.org, tonight's full moon is the smallest full moon of the year, farthest from the Earth than the closest full moon, that will be the September 28 Harvest Moon), but it's still beautiful. And PS Happy World Book Day.
I came, chubby-cheeked and reluctant, to the realisation that if I was ever going to find the seat of my own power, I had to embrace the smell of my own sweat. There are a lot of stats that link girls’ mental health, resilience and confidence with physical activity. But taking that from the abstract into … Continue reading Column: Moving past lip service on women’s issues
Driving home from Squamish one day, 20 or more years ago, I was listening to The Almanac on CBC radio. The topic was small acreages and people going back to the land. The guest mentioned this book by Carla Emery more than once in his hour on the show. It was called The Encyclopedia of … Continue reading #Wellness Reads: The Encyclopedia of Country Living
It's not a wedding, but it could be. Arts and Culture are coming together, hitching up, to ensure a more fruitful union in the Valley and celebrate all the forms of self-expression out there, for professionals, amateurs, life-long practitioners, dabblers, masters and kids! Find out what's on the agenda, as the Pemberton Cultural Roundtable disbands, … Continue reading The Arts Council and Cultural Roundtable are Merging. Learn More Tonight!
Polek and I both welcomed babies into the world on March 1, so given that we are celebrating little people who are turning one and two, today, his contribution this month to the Photo of the Week series, seems especially resonant of the turning seasons. Polek calls this image of solanum lycopersicum going for it, "Emergence". (That's … Continue reading Photo of the Week: Polek Rybczynski’s ‘Emergence’
Getting dangerously caffeinated is just one of those occupational hazards for the Mayor of Pemberton. Mayor Mike Richman takes up the community engagement torch, and will be available at Blackbird Bakery from 9am to 11am, to shout you a brew, and shoot the breeze or answer questions about any municipal issues you might want to … Continue reading Event: Coffee with the Mayor, Tuesday Mar 3, 9am – 11am
I read two long articles recently, about addiction, that blew my mind open a little wider, and I wanted to share them here. They're worth the time. The first, The Like Cause of Addiction has been discovered, and it is not what you think, ran on the Huffington Post at the end of January, and … Continue reading Two Longreads on Addiction that Will Change The Way You Think Of Addicts, whatever your perspective
The Wellness Almanac 