Too often the holiday season becomes a time of stress and worry with heavy emphasis on spending. This annual tradition leaves me feeling exhausted after a whirlwind of buying, wrapping and giving that seems to be over before I am mentally ready for it to start.  Last year I decided that things needed to change.  […]

I have noticed something going around lately.  It is that invisible wonder that inevitably creeps up as the days grow colder and the hours of darkness stretch longer.  It travels on the bus with us, through handshakes and has the capability to wipe out entire departments and classrooms at the same time.  It has kept […]

On a daily basis we are bombarded by research in the media with respect to practically every aspect of our mental and physical wellbeing.  With each passing day there is something else out there that will kill us, give us cancer or leach radiation into our brains.  While I am not dismissing these claims as […]

What is your passion?  According the Oxford English Dictionary, a passion is an intense desire or enthusiasm for something.  I would like to take that definition a bit further and say that it is an intense desire or enthusiasm for something and the opportunity to share that something with others.  My passion is dancing, Polynesian […]

This past spring marked the first year that I have lived in a house with a garden of my own.  I was inspired, along with my housemates, to plant a conservative and fairly beginner vegetable garden.  For those of you with green thumbs out there, you know that gardening involves patience and the ability to […]

This week I participated in the Positive Space Campaign training coordinated by UBC’s Equity Office.  The goal of the program is to promote increased visibility and support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender, transsexual, two-spirit, intersex (LGBQTTI), gender queer and questioning people. In addition, the program provides training for UBC staff, faculty and students to […]

Summer is finally here and despite the questionable conditions outside at the moment, along with summer comes sun and with sun comes UVA and UVB exposure.  I will admit that I have been, and will always be, a dedicated sun worshipper.  Nothing warms this Leo’s heart more than stretching out under the sun’s rays and […]