by Evie Ockelford | Jun 25, 2019 | Sports, Sports | Lifestyle
A beginner’s guide to getting off the couch and across the finish line Stock image via Pixabay Last October, I dragged myself over the finish line of the Goodlife Fitness Victoria marathon. My time wasn’t impressive, but I had an excuse to eat absurd amounts of...
by Evie Ockelford | Apr 8, 2019 | Op-eds, Opinions
Just a small town girl Photo accessed via Wikimedia Commons. In the summer of 2014, I moved from a small village in the U.K. to Nanaimo, B.C. You may have heard of Nanaimo; we have a very entertaining unsolved crime bulletin board, with headlines like, “suspect steals...
by Evie Ockelford | Mar 27, 2019 | Lifestyle, Sports | Lifestyle
Beware the fad! Photo by StockSnap accessed via Pixabay. Fads are always coming and going: fidget spinners, clout goggles and yodelling in Walmart to bother their innocent employees have been notable in the past few years. Us kids like to embrace these fads...
by Evie Ockelford | Mar 18, 2019 | Op-eds, Opinions
If you are reading this, there’s a good chance you have someone in your life who suffers from what I like to call “engineering studentitis.” Those who suffer from this condition have selective super-hearing that only functions when someone nearby is talking about...