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that was the summer we went to kellerman’s…
Filed Under faces & places, guest bloggers | July 19, 2011
We were recently invited to check out Harrison Hot Springs Resort & Spa, so we sent our intrepid Shoni Field with her family to do a little exploring: The line popped into my head as we walked through the lobby of the Harrison Hot Springs Resort. Not that Johnny Castle was there to teach me [...]
everything old is new again
Filed Under contests, faces & places | May 12, 2011
I am a bit of a clotheshorse. In past lives I have worked in a variety of high end fashion establishments as a ‘style consultant’ (or whatever the title du jour was). I also have held office jobs that entailed suits, skirts and my always loved high heeled shoes. My closet holds blazers, skirts and [...]
royal wedding, high tea and curly wurlies
Filed Under faces & places | April 27, 2011
Despite my British heritage (that’s why we use “mum” in our editorial over “mom” just so you know) I’m not into the upcoming royal wedding enough to actually get up early to watch it. But I do have a coterie of girlfriends who are on dress discussion alert for Friday. And when I stumbled across [...]
park it (at the playground)
Filed Under faces & places | April 14, 2011
We all probably recognize this firetruck from Stanley Park, but what about other parks and playgrounds for our tots? We’ve been asked a few times for our opinions of all the neighborhood parks with playgrounds about town, but even if we divvied up the list and the whole yoyo crew went about town from park [...]
king tut, funky tut
Filed Under events, faces & places | April 11, 2011
I really have to get past my love of bad ’70s music (this time, usually it’s the ’80s), especially in blog post titles but it seems you can grow out of the ’70s and ’80s but not the music…all of which is a long winded lead in to my review of Carousel Theatre’s newest (and [...]
under construction
Filed Under faces & places, fitness | March 24, 2011
I am about to write a post about weight loss. But it’s not the post you expect. I am not on a diet, and I am not trying to be thin. When I rounded and softened while carrying my children in my belly, I wore it like a badge of honour: I had carried and [...]
battle of the bar(res)
Filed Under faces & places, guest bloggers | March 17, 2011
In the last little while two new fitness studios opened in town. Barre Fitness and the Bar Method. Both are in Yaletown, both specialize in a sort of a combo of yoga, pilates and ballet and both are killer workouts. We tried each studio, went away after each workout on jelly-like shaking legs (and better [...]
bar method
Filed Under faces & places, guest bloggers | March 17, 2011
Here are the confessions of a bar addict from local mama of two, Shoni Field: I’ve never been much of an exercise enthusiast, perhaps because I’ve never found something that delivered consistent results, but all that changed when I started going to Bar Method in January. I’d spent 2010 doing intense massage therapy for back [...]
barre fitness
Filed Under faces & places, guest bloggers | March 17, 2011
Local mama and entrepreneur, Amy van Weelderen of Lullaby League, likes to hit the barre: I have done step aerobics, spin class, boot camps and hot yoga. I have belonged to gyms, worked out on my own and with a buddy. I have pledged to all and committed to none. . .until now. When I [...]
my, my, how can I resist you?
Filed Under faces & places | March 8, 2011
This past weekend I took my five-year-old to Carousel’s latest production, Munscha Mia which is running through March 27th. I always love taking the kids to live theatre, I think it’s so important and I love to see their reaction and suspension of disbelief. With Munsha Mia in particular my daughter loved seeing some of [...]
