Tag Archives: veterinary medicine

I’m hooked on the Firepole Marketing Scavenger Hunt

If you’re following me on Facebook or Twitter this past week, you’re probably wondering if someone hacked my account.  All’s good.  It happens that I’m participating in the first ever Firepole Marketing On-line Scavenger Hunt. What’s that, you say?

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Downward Dog DVM: The 100th Post

Just turned 100…my 100th blog post, that is!  Can’t believe that I’ve been able to keep at this blogging thing for more than two years now.

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Mindfulness Meditation Retreat Chicago 2012

Off to pursue another adventure, I pulled my car up to the US Customs booth. “Where are you going?”, the officer asked.

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I’m published!

Today’s the official launch date of the book “Animal Companions, Animal Doctors, Animal People“.  It’s to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Ontario Veterinary College, my alma mater.  And I’m proud to say that I wrote one of the essays … Continue reading

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The Five Elements and Dog Breeds

When I as a little girl, I spent hours colouring in my dog sticker book. I was obsessed. I think it was part of my early foundation in veterinary medicine. Nowadays, wherever I go, I enjoy playing the game “identify … Continue reading

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Teaching yoga to veterinarians

I completed week two of my veterinary acupuncture course (more to come on that in another post) in early December.  During week 1, I offered to teach a 30 minute Gentle Flow yoga class to any of the forty or … Continue reading

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Mindfulness Meditation with VIN

My worlds are colliding. Family.  Friends.  Work.  Yoga.   I have a tendency to keep these parts of my life separate, in that they don’t seem to mingle much.  For some reason, I don’t tend to mix them all together into … Continue reading

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Addicted to my iPhone?

“My kingdom for my iPhone!”, to paraphrase a famous quote. I left my cell at home today.

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For the Love of Learning

One of my sister’s calls me a professional student.  I’m good with that.  OK, so I was in University for a long time (getting into and then completing vet college).  I did yoga school last year and I’m assisting in the … Continue reading

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Something left over for me

I’m physically tired. There’s been a lot going on.  I had appointments on Saturday AM, then was off to the clinic’s summer party in the afternoon.  I taught two yoga classes on Sunday and did yard work for the remainder … Continue reading

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