Quite a few doubles and triples sprinkled among the picks this week — my pattern-seeking brain in action. On the Blitz Conditioning blog, Heather McIntyre explores how to keep up with your fitness regime while on vacation. (Photo from post used with permission). Lots of good stuff on Blitz this week, including posts by Nick … More Edmonton blog roundup: March 2, 2015

The Oscars kind of end awards season, which is good, because I hate awards, with a couple of exceptions we’ll get to here. Jay Runham’s inaugural The J Awards are five minutes well-spent. He even put on a tux, and his Celine Dion impression will tear you up. (That’s a screen grab because I can’t seem … More Edmonton blog roundup: Feb. 23, 2015

Love is all around, between Valentine’s Day and Family Day and the ongoing festival of family birthdays that is this time of year. Here are some posts I loved, or at least liked a great deal. Look at this skirt Nicole Rowan found. Love at first sight, and only $2.50! (Photo from VV Boutique Style, used … More Edmonton blog roundup: Feb. 16, 2015

I turned 45 last week, which is old enough to know better. Better than what, I don’t know. Anyway.. Cheryl Cottrell-Smith reviews Bliss Baked Goods, which is now within walking distance of my house, and by the looks of it, I’d better walk to earn those delicious calories. (Photo used with permission from wine + … More Edmonton blog roundup: Feb. 9, 2015

This was a week of laughing, celebrating, thinking and just shaking my head. It was also a week in which Tumblr changed its back-end interface, which is making me crazy as I write this, but onward. Friends Without Benefits, a sketch-comedy web series by Adam Rozenhart, Andrea Beça and Trent Wilkie, debuted this week. Lindsey … More Edmonton blog roundup: Feb. 2, 2015

This week I learned that the day Dave Cournoyer started daveberta is the day I went into labour with my second child. Coincidence? Utterly. But two good things born around the same time is worth noting, I think. “Blogging is a great hobby and Alberta politics continues to offer great content,” Dave writes in his … More Edmonton blog roundup: Jan. 26, 2015

This was the week that the Roxy burned down, and we’ll get to that, but first, some happier thoughts: Linda Hoang shines her spotlight on Friday Night Meatballs, a weekly dinner party thrown by Chris Falconer that’s all about community. (Group shot one of many from the post, used with permission.)  Also on the community-building … More Edmonton blog roundup: Jan. 19, 2015

I’m thinking a lot of people resolved to blog more this year, because holy man was there a lot to read this week. Brace yourself for an extra-long roundup. This ad from 1920 is probably the nuttiest one I’ve come across on Vintage Edmonton, and I’ve read a lot of them. Just wow. Thanks to … More Edmonton blog roundup: Jan. 12, 2015

It’s the Janus time, when we look back and forward. There’s quite a lot of that in this week’s crop of posts as we straddle the old year and the new. Randall Talbot took some lovely shots of our city on a “cold and gloriously sunny day.” Find more like the one above in his … More Edmonton blog roundup: Jan. 5, 2015

It’s the last roundup of 2014! Here’s some end-of-the-year reading for you that isn’t a best-of or year-in-review list (though it may contain some): My Montréalaise sister-in-law got me this for Christmas. She gets me, no? Merci, Emilie, and nice work, Far Sky Map Works. First, let’s get Christmas out of our system: Sally Scott … More Edmonton blog roundup: Dec. 29, 2014