The other day, a “non-daycare day,” I was trying to quickly check my work email on my phone while playing with my daughter. Apparently she noticed my divided attention: “no mommy phone,” she said, and gently took it out of my hand and put it on the table. A good reminder to me that when […]
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In the time it takes you to read my column, your heart is pumping about five quarts of blood (that’s about 10 pints) through more than 60,000 miles of arteries, veins and capillaries-that’s further than twice around the world. Depending on how long you live, your heart could beat three billion times in your lifetime. Your
Seaside Writers’ Lunch | SBIA Grand Reopening of Sidney Visitor Centre | Seaside Book Club 1-7 Seaside Magazine Writers’ Lunch: 1. Tina Kelly and Lara Gladych 2. Publisher Sue Hodgson thanks the writers: Gillian Crowley, Krista Rossato, Deborah Rogers, Valerie Green 3. Seaside’s Editor-in-Chief, Allison Smith 4. Trysh Ashby-Rolls 5. Stu Rhodes 6. Shauna Dorko, Jo Barnes,
by Dr. Ambrose Marsh, Chief of Staff, Saanich Peninsula Hospital – Work in my office and in the hospital was extraordinarily busy when the SPH Foundation staff asked me to suggest a general theme for Heart Health month. I hadn’t finished my Christmas shopping, and I was distracted by the fact that all my boys
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by Paula Kully – Butchart Gardens is a jewel in the crown of the Saanich Peninsula, attracting over one million visitors a year from all over the world. People see the 55 acres of spectacular blossoms, the famous Sunken Garden and Rose Garden rampant with colour, but what they don’t see are the 130 acres
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