Health and struggles

At the end of winter, there is a season in which we are daily expecting spring, and finally a day when it arrives.—Journal, 8 March 1853 (Henry Thoreau) Being human nearly always equals struggle. Some more, some less. We all struggle in some form from time to time, and time again. I’ve had my share;

On solitary domesticity

This past year has left me contemplative of relationships, familial and otherwise. I don’t have a large circle of friends, I do have a larger family but we don’t see each other as much nor do we all enjoy each-others company all the time. This has left me with a bit of a gap this

Vegan: 60 days.

Happy Monday everyone! I know it’s not Monday but it was a long weekend here on PEI, so today is definitely monday-y! Last month I wrote an entry on exploring a world without meat. It was probably a bit random given this is a personal finance blog most of the time. 😮 Today marks 1,440

Exploring a world without meat.

On December 21st, the day me and Tom returned from our around the world trip we decided to adopt a vegetarian/vegan diet, or, rather in the time leading up to our return date we gradually grew more familiar with the idea and chose our return date to start as it would be convenient to do

Thoughts on how to move forward.

There are quite a few thoughts running through my head these days. I’ll be starting to gather things soon to do my tax return for 2017 and with that I’ll tally up all my income and expenses and, as I have been doing for many years, make an estimate of what I will earn and

No shampoo – update. Summary: don’t do it, it sucks, maybe it won’t for you though.

13 months ago I wrote about the experiment-health-latest fad thing I had read about quite a bit online; that whole no-poo thing, not using shampoo on your hair. Just washing with water and I decided to give it a try then. I came across a link to that post about it, this one right here where I

NBN Fitness challenge Final Results!

This fitness challenge ran from July 23 until August 20. Well, the challenge is done so let’s see what we’ve accomplished. My goals during this challenge were: Increase strength & stamina as measured by moving along in the C25K program and lose 6 pounds, or 1.whatever pounds per week. – run the c25k 3x weekly

Week 3 – NBN Fitness challenge update

This fitness challenge runs from July 23 until August 20. Week 3 is over! I haven’t seen any updates from anyone else yet but here’s mine; First, my personal goals during this challenge: Increase strength & stamina as measured by moving along in the C25K program and lose 6 pounds, or 1.whatever pounds per week.

Week 2 – NBN Fitness Challenge, did you behave?

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NBN Fitness Challenge – Week 1 results… you ready?

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