Tag: life
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Going to the Sun Road
Did you know there’s a highway in Glacier National Park that’s only available to the world for a few months out of the whole year? This 51 mile stretch of blacktop usually opens around June or July, and closes again in October due to the disastrous conditions that winter brings with it. And by a…
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Backpacking with Car Seats
I’ll admit it. I’m that mom that’s a car seat freak. I’m up to date on all the latest best-practice updates and follow Facebook groups that advocate for keeping kids rear-facing for as long as possible. I’m super anal about car seat safety (maybe to a fault) and have always done everything I can to…
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The Valley: Gateway to Tayrona
We were meant to be up at 5am. It was now 8am. It wasn’t looking like a great start to the day. Our plans had long since fallen through on account of a late night and a migraine keeping me up most of the night. On the positive side, at least my pain had subsided.…
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The Countdown to 43
Lately I’ve been feeling a tad burned out. I can feel the continual stress building up of being in a management role all day at work, then being in the mom management role as soon as I leave the hospital. It’s a lot to manage staff all day, despite them being a fantastic group of…
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A Dream Come True
How cool would it be to become a published author and have your written work displayed in a real, live, brick and mortar store? Well, I can now answer that question. It’s pretty freakin’ amazing!! Never in a million years did I ever think that would happen. Gosh… how many times have I wandered through…
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Vancouver Waterfront
When opportunity presents itself, you take it. It doesn’t matter if it’s an offer for coffee, a day off work, or an all expense paid weekend at a 5 star waterfront hotel. When you’re given the chance to do something, do it! A couple months ago I received an out of the blue e-mail from…
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Mountains in Mexico
It was October, and the perfect time for a vacation. I had 3 weeks off work and a week of solo time arranged. I’d been humming and hawing about where to go with only a week at my disposal. Due to timing, crossing the pond was out of the question. And it seemed South America…
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Nights in the ICU
Beeep. Beeep. Beeep. The alarm on the alaris pump is going off. Line occlusion. Bingg. Bingg. Bingg. The cardiac monitor is alarming. Low saturations. Bop. Bop. Bop. The ventilator is alarming. High circuit pressure. The doctor is bellowing out orders: “I want an x-ray, art line, and central line. And add in covid serology, ICU…
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2020 in Review
2020. Welcome to our new reality. We are raising a new generation of children who will sadly never know what things were like before covid, but will have “wash hands” and “mask” among their list of first words (or at least that’s been my experience with my daughter). So where do I start? Well, where…
Teryn Warnke 