Goodbye

Time certainly flies when you're having muddy, dirty, somewhat dangerous fun.

This has been an amazing year for me. I have been lucky enough to find people to teach me a variety of skills that I plan to build on for the rest of my life. My final column for the paper is here.

When I actually care about something or someone, I am fairly lousy at goodbyes, so I will keep it quick.

To my teachers: Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge, for letting me dress up in suits, learn your secret recipes and allowing me to hold knives. I am amazed by your patience and impressed by how you all managed to put up with a somewhat flustered reporter fumbling with a video camera.

To my readers: Knowing you were out there pushed me to step further from my comfort zone than I thought possible. The safety suits were a piece of cake - Toronto Police, if you need a stunt body to get dropped in the ice or taken down by dogs please give me a call -  but I wouldn't have stepped near a spinning class unless I had committed to shaping up as part of this plan.

I owe you one.

Best of luck to you and your loved ones for all your adventures ahead. I am really going to miss this.

Emily

Comments

[Jim Macdonald]

Thanks Emily. If you ever visit BC, be sure to stop by my debris hut for some elk pepperettes:)

[Frank]

Thanks for your efforts. It has certainly been interesting and fun reading about your adventures and following the links you posted. For 12 months, you had the best stuff in the Toronto Star!

[Sean]

I enjoyed your posts and articles. Truly, learning is a journey and we all need lots and lots of "dirt time" :-)