That’s what it takes to keep me working in my tiny apartment with southern exposure. All day sun and the heat that comes with it. I worried for months in advance due to the memory of previous summers’ heat, acrid air, and pollution. It billowed in from British Columbia’s increasingly dangerous, longer, and life-changing forest fire season. 
Creativity at work begins first with creativity in making my space comfortable. Does my ‘hack’ work? [Continue reading]
Filters In Home & Then Mouth and Mind
Of the 70,000 daily thoughts we have and our brains filter, surely a big percentage that we have on permanent repeat are the ideas of new and improved habits. One has found its way through the filter trap to this page. I'm taking a practical route by … [Continue reading]
Day 21 Where do you get stalled & what do you do about it?
This is a repost from a 45-day daily personal writing exercise I undertook when I was both invigorated and also challenged by a major home and office move some years ago. Then and now, I still get stalled.. so.. here is the reminder..... My … [Continue reading]
Can Routine Bolster Our Productivity and Boost Our Mood?
"Seek community and routine." This is the calm counsel I got during some challenging times after I moved, alone, to my current stomping grounds - Vancouver, Canada. That advice came from a military member. He was expected to move as seamlessly as … [Continue reading]
Father’s Day Happy and Fraught
It's an odd time for me to start my year of 'reactive blogging'. On Father's Day of all moments. Daily, I am triggered to memory lane. It happens with the news, my own mind, social media posts, and random sights and sounds. Finally, I begin to write … [Continue reading]
Go for the whole magilla on Purim & listen to the “Megilla” aka Book of Esther
Iran, Jews and deadly decrees are commemorated in an upbeat way this week. Coming early at us in this Jewish Year of 5782, Purim arrives the night of March 16 and lasts with laughter and celebration well into March 17. Even as tensions continue in … [Continue reading]
Contact lens use in the time of COVID-Part 3 of 3 on eye care
On behalf of contact lens wearers, I had one final question for my Vancouver-based optometrist, Dr. Janey Yee. I do not wear contacts myself. I've given birth, considered the challenge of walking on coals, and did successfully certify as a scuba … [Continue reading]
When you can’t escape the blue light -Part 2 of 3 on eye care – the Boost Zone edition
Finally, we can see light at the end of the tunnel out of our COVID-created caves. Restrictions are being lifted in British Columbia. Vaccines are en route. We can look forward - that is if we can see past the blue light emanating from our ubiquitous … [Continue reading]
Vancouver optometrist’s top eye care tips for our continuously connected selves – Part I
Care of our eyes and preservation of our sight is essential if we wish to live and work well in our current tech-connected world. Plus, our year in the safety of our COVID caves, called on our eyes to perform to the max as we all huddled around any … [Continue reading]
Mouthing Holiday Greetings from Behind Your Mask Hesitatingly? Tis The Season!
Happy Holidays. Happy Hanukkah, however you spell it. Merry Christmas although my older British friends prefer Happy Christmas. How do I best greet a Kwanzaa celebrant?? I think I got the season's first festival of lights right, … [Continue reading]
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