Tanya’s 2¢ (aka Blog)

Anger is like water from a fire hose, fill your glass, break your glass. I was away for a weekend with two of my girlfriends recently. We caught up on all of the good, the bad and the ugly from our lives. We also talked about anger and one of my friends said ‘anger is...

Vacations; good for the soul? Sure. In my opinion vacations are individual and subjective. One person’s vacation may not be an others. My husband and I have different ideas of what a vacation is; he looks for a place to be active and I look for a place to lay down....

I had a bit of a ‘me’ weekend, just kind of relished the silence and the ability to not speak. I am an introvert by nature so the opportunity to recharge was welcomed and needed. I find that my brain just gets so full that I feel like I can’t be the person I want to...

I have played different sports for different coaches throughout my athletic career. And I’ve watched and listened to coaches’ coach my children and my nieces and nephew. Coaches are like bosses, some are good and some are not so good.  Some fit better with...

Last week I turned 44.Last week I flew to Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver.Last week an innocent soldier was intentionally run over in Quebec.Last week he was 53.Last week an innocent soldier was gunned down in our Nations Capital.Last week he was 24.Last week...

I am the StepMother to two children, aged 19 and 12. I love my job as StepMom or S’Mom as they sometimes refer to me. The 19 year old is away at College and the 12 year old lives with us almost half time. Their Father, my husband was away for work and the 12 year old...

Vulnerability is a necessity for strength. I heard that the other day and it made me sit straighter. It was intriguing for me because vulnerability is one of my challenges. I wonder if its a gender thing for business women because vulnerability can mean many things in...

When I was in University I faithfully attended the gym in between a few of my morning classes. I as usual, was on a tight timeline to get my work out done and get back across campus to my next class. I was attempting to return a barbell to the rack and was stopped by...

Empathy comes up as a topic of conversation weekly, perhaps more in my household. And this morning on my run I started to wonder about it and why it comes up so regularly in my brain and conversations. So I looked up the definition in the Merriam-Webster dictionary...

Over the course of the summer months I have trained for a half marathon which I ran yesterday with my husband. This is the third year in a row that I have trained to run a half marathon, and this year was the hardest. I had a very busy summer where I did not get much...