I'm stoked!
Five of us changers are competing for the Viva la Resolution $1000 prize.

If I win, I'll put the money toward building a website for parents who face the great challenge of making an informed decision about kids' vaccines.

This isn't a pro-vaccine site.

This isn't an anti-vaccine site.

I uploaded the vaccine survey last week and asked 5 smart colleagues to give me feedback to improve it. They gave me great suggestions.

First draft of the vaccine attitude survey is online now.

Take the Vaccine Attitudes survey now

I'd love for a few people to take the survey and send me feedback about it:

Is it too long?
Are the questions easy to understand?
Do the questions flow well?
Are there questions missing?

About a year ago I started a project to write some e-books targeted to the non-profit sector. To start, I developed an online survey to identify which topics would be most interesting to people who work and volunteer in the sector. I got great info from that survey.

I've long believed that in stating an intention, out loud, to a group of people - as opposed to privately in a diary or to just one friend - increases the odds of that intention actually coming to be.

After posting my blog entry this morning, I sat down to write my monthly health column for Shared Vision magazine (which, is just being rebranded as Today's Vancouver Woman).

Things are moving forward slowly but surely, as they say.

(I'm leaving the home I've lived in for 12 years on Feb 1st, so a great deal of the time I'm not working has been focused on purging and packing).

Making progress with pulling together an advisory committee for the vaccine informed consent campaign (I sure need a catchier name for this campaign... ideas?)

So far three people have agreed to support me in the project!

The issue is one I’ve been passionate about for 13 years – since I was pregnant - childhood vaccines and the challenge of informed consent.

I’d give the $1000 to the Trail Career development Services program. One of their clients can explain why much better than I ever could: