Eat Well, Live Vibrantly

December 7, 2013

Vegan Dark Chocolate and Cranberry Bark with Pumpkin Seeds

I love dark chocolate. I love dark chocolate with cranberries. I love dark chocolate with cranberries and pumpkin seeds. If you do too, then this recipe is for you. The brilliance of making dark chocolate bark is that it looks mightily impressive but is really as easy as melting chocolate, pouring it into a pan, and then sprinkling […]

November 30, 2013

Meaningful Gift Giving: Part Two – Some Ideas

“Connecting with friends, nurturing intimate relationships, socializing at parties, consuming art, music, and literature, learning new languages and skills, honing talents, and volunteering at our neighbourhood hospital, church, or animal shelter. Tellingly, these are precisely the activities that people on the brink of death…wish they would have spent more time doing in their everyday lives.” […]

November 24, 2013

What’s in a Gift? A Guide to Meaningful Gift Giving

It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. We’ve already had our second snowstorm of the season and it isn’t even December. The first snowstorm left a good several inches of snow on the ground. By comparison, this snowstorm makes the previous snowstorm look like child’s play. This is the real deal. We’re […]

November 11, 2013

Vegan Chocolate Mocha Cupcakes

What is a birthday without cupcakes? Well, still a pretty great day – but cupcakes never hurt. It was my sister’s birthday recently and she put in a request for chocolate cupcakes with coffee icing. I was only too happy to oblige. Turning to my trusty copy of Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, with […]

November 7, 2013

The Challenge: No TV for a week

This week I am in the midst of a personal challenge: no TV for seven days. To be fair, it’s been several years since I’ve subscribed to cable channels, so in reality I don’t actually watch TV as it is (unless it’s Rookie Blue, in which case I’ve made provisions – namely, watching at my sister’s […]