Spring Arrives Early to Vancouver Cultural Olympiad

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Eddie the Eagle, Jamaican Bobsled, Eric the Eel

Who will carry on the torch at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver as being the lovable, not coached, untrained, underdog? Here are the past ‘athletes’ who won our hearts:

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On the Edge_Olympic Athletes

If you don’t push to the limit to climb onto that podium, then someone else will… but is the cost to the athletes for those moments of fame and glory just to high?

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PNG Documentary Research Trip

The hard life of an adventuresome screenwriter… a month underwater studying the behavior of Pygmie Seahorses for a new documentary for Rob Stewart, the filmmaker who brought us Sharkwater.

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Re: Lonely Mitten

In response to my blog that strings could be the saviour solution to my costly and frigid habit of losing mittens… people have pointed out that these yarn safety lines caused the untimely deaths of our tots:

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The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde

Every December lunch hour I would bound home from elementary school, leaping snowbanks, sending an avalanche of snow onto immaculately shoveled drives. It wasn’t the thought of my mother’s convenient food slapped haphazardly on a plastic plate that got my legs pumping, sweating under a layer cake of snowsuit.

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Gjoa Haven NWT Voyage

Gjoa Haven is a small town on the tip of King William’s Island above the North West Territories of Canada… it’s far…

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Lonely Mitten

I admit I am reckless. Removing their warm comfort, slipping them next to my thighs, so that I can read a newspaper, text on my cell or flash my transit pass. Then jumping off at my stop, leaving them riding the rails solo.

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Fine Line Between Food, Friend and Foe

Pig_2Swine flu is a hybrid strain of influenza that derived from our piggy pals and feathered friends. There are actually over two hundred diseases that can be passed between animals and humans. Zoonosis presents a public health challenge. And we brought it on ourselves.

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Taipei Film Studio

After watching an Indonesian volleyball championship with a gang of blue-haired rebel Taiwanese, I hopped on a plane to visit them…

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