I recently composed a piece on my first year in the Partners for Healthier Weight program. The full post is here:

http://lindensmith.com/2013/first-year-reflections

Rich man's burden, this. It's just that I've been finding that I'm losing a lot of time lately just to managing the flow of messages through my Gmail inbox. I have innumerable filters set up for my various lists and such, and since my time is at a premium right now I actually seldom get a chance to read most of my favourite feeds or list e-mail ( Read more... )

My friend Jerry Katz has a very esoteric radio show on the university radio station called Nonduality Street, and this week he had me come in to do a live interview about nonduality and parenting, a topic on which I am unbelievably expert. (heh.) He describes the show and provides a link to the half-hour show here ( Read more... )

A key part of The Gabriel Method deals with creative visualization. Each day, in the morning and before bed, you're supposed to spend some time visualizing yourself in an ideal body. Change the mind, the logic goes, and the body will follow ( Read more... )

About a week ago I wrote about how I had relaxed my behavioural expectations of my 2 year-old son, and how that had brought about a positive shift in my relationship with him. I wasn't yelling at him anymore for doing bad things, and I was re-evaluating what was really all that bad about what he was doing, anyway. He still has his "moments" -- ( Read more... )

I'm not usually slow to anger over a number of things that my kids do. The triggers usually involve not listening to my instructions; doing something I’ve already clearly forbidden them to do (important things like not climbing onto the stove while I’m cooking, for example); or they might be making a mess (seemingly for its own sake). Depending on ( Read more... )

A year ago, my wife and I were expecting our third child, and I was having mild panic attacks about it. I had been in the mindset that when our second child, who was around a year old at that time, would reach 18 months of age, I'd put him in daycare part-time and then officially get my freelance writing and journalism career off the ground. ( Read more... )

Most of the time, my mind is actively churning through thoughts on a variety of topics. I've discovered that I'm an 'ideas guy' anyway, so I'm constantly running through different concepts, creations and ideas in my head ( Read more... )

We had a great Christmas this year in our new house, with my wife's parents visiting from Calgary for two weeks. We kind of went hog-wild on gifts this year too, with three major big-ticket items of a pro espresso machine, a new camera (with a 50-mm fixed focal-length lens which I'm IN LOVE WITH), and a new vehicle! (The latter wasn't a Christmas ( Read more... )

My father-in-law sent us a link to a Globe and Mail survey results page that posed the following question:
Are you prepared to make some sacrifice in your own standard of living to help fight global warming?

Yes, unequivocally.


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