Marcus Lopes's Blog, page 53
April 15, 2012
Climbing … Trying to Get Home
Today [Saturday, 14 April 2012] was a bright, sunshiny day, a little windy, and when I made it out for a run just before noon, it was 14°C. Lately, I haven’t been running as regularly as I would like, but completing a 7.5 km (4.6 mi) run today offered a great lift to my day. Running, for me, is like yoga to others. It is a time of meditation where I am able to block out the world, quiet my mind —attain a sort of perfect peace. It is usually when I am running that I can see the way forward thr...
April 8, 2012
Godsends Revisited
It's Sunday evening of the Easterweekend, and I am sitting on my living room sofa with Mendelssohn, myoverweight attention-seeking orange tabby cat, curled into my leg. He's snoringloudly, and content. Two of my other cats are curled up together on theottoman, even though they don't necessarily like each other. My forth cat (yes,I'm that crazy cat man) is upstairs sleeping somewhere. He'llsoon come running at the sound of the scoop digging into the cat foodcontainer.
The Easter weekend has...
April 3, 2012
Social Media and Me: A Love-Hate Relationship
I know it's the 21st century, and advances intechnology have changed the nature of communications. The rise and popularityof social networking sites —Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Myspace, Skyrock, and the list goes on — is proof that the waywe communicate is ever-evolving. Add to the mix text messaging, online datingsites like e-Harmony and Lavalife, and e-mail. It's easy to see why letterwriting can be perceived as an archaic art form; it's much easier to send offan e-mail, a text message...
Le médias sociaux et moi : un rapport ambigu
En 2012, une chose est certaine :les avances techniques portent une grande influence sur les moyens decommunication. Les médias sociaux, tels que Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,MySpace, Skyrock, etc., continuent d'être de plus en plus populaires. Lapopularité de ces réseaux sociaux démontre, de façon claire et nette, que lesmoyens de communication sont en évolution continuelle. A cela s'ajoute lesmessages textes, les sites de rencontres (e-Harmony, Lavalife, Webconnexions,etc.) et les courriels...
March 28, 2012
Spring is in the Air
This time last week I was, like most runners, wearing shortsand a T-shirt, soaking up the sun as temperatures soared into the mid-twenties.Perhaps I was, like most people, a little too eager to welcome spring and saygoodbye to winter. Winter wasn't quite ready to be displaced, and over the pastcouple of days we've felt her "wrath." Temperatures plummeted to -18°C, and I'vebeen holed up in my house, unwilling to be adventurous and venture out into thecold. So I've been putting off running...
March 20, 2012
On Life, Online Dating and Humanity
We have arrived just past the middle of March, and todaywas, at its high, 24°C.Unseasonably warm? No doubt, and many people are waiting for another blast ofwinter. Perhaps we have said goodbye to winter, or perhaps March will go outlike a lion. Time will tell.
I'mquite content about the possibility that winter might be over. Don't get mewrong, I like winter but this year it was quite warm, and I didn't make it outskiing once. I spent a lot of time indoors, not just at home, but in Montréaland...
March 6, 2012
Review: Freestyle Love
A review of Freestyle Love by Jagged Edge Reviews: http://klearsreviews.blogspot.com/.
March 5, 2012
I Know this Much is True
Today I'm the guest author at Jagged Edge Reviews, the last stop on the current Freestyle Love Virtual Book Tour. Check out my post, "I Know this Much is True," here: http://klearsreviews.blogspot.com/. 
March 4, 2012
Keeping On
This afternoon the sunlight glistens on the snow that felltwo days ago. The brown-green grass has finally been covered up. Although itfeels colder than -8°C, it actually feels like winter, and it's a great day tohit the ski slopes. Seated at my kitchen table, the warm sun beaming into theroom gives a much-needed lift to the day as well as my spirits.
Over the course of the past few days, I've had to trickmyself into writing. I don't have any trouble completing my Morning Pages. I'vebeen...
Over the course of the past few days, I've had to trickmyself into writing. I don't have any trouble completing my Morning Pages. I'vebeen...
March 3, 2012
Procrastination
Today I'm the guest author at Full Moon Bites as part of the Freestyle Love Virtual Book Tour. Check out my post, "Procrastination," here: http://fullmoonbites.blogspot.com/.
Also, enter to win an e-copy of Freestyle Love.
Also, enter to win an e-copy of Freestyle Love.
