Prior to living in Nicaragua, ‘privilege’ was not really a part of my everyday vocabulary. Unless you consider those flippant ‘it’s a first world problem’ type of comments made when the coffee shop was out of almond milk! But now it has a very different meaning. A word that invokes passion and ...
September Round-Up of Nutrition News From Around the Web (and More)
September is a month of transition …. and I don’t always cope with change very well! But after a chaotic few weeks I am starting to find my daily rhythm again and after a month absence have managed to curate the past months list of interesting happenings in the nutrition world and beyond. Top Ten ...
Enjoying Life Bite by Bite
Summer is officially over and after spending 3 months in Canada we have returned to Nicaragua. I have been sorting through the hundreds of photos we’ve taken to select a few to print. While reliving these recent adventures I have been struck by the regularity by which food appears in our ...
Be The Change: Reflections from the International Dietetics Congress
I am writing this post suspended 3000 feet up in the air somewhere over the Atlantic. As tends to happen on long flights (when you’re not tirelessly entertaining young children), my mind has wandered. I am on my way home from the International Dietetics Congress, a 3-day meeting held in Granada, ...
The Soundtrack of Our Lives: A Lesson from The Tragically Hip
I am not a musician and I am not Canadian born, so really I have no right to be adding my voice to the dozens, if not hundreds of articles and blog posts written about Saturday night. But I feel compelled to at least try to explain to my non-Canadian friends what I experienced... and therein lies ...
