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When life throws you curveballs...you learn to hit curveballs
Life is funny. There are traumas you expect to have to live with at some point or another. The end of a relationship. The death of a...

Marc Lalonde
Jan 25, 20213 min read


Christmas? Bah, humbug!
I’m really not in the Christmas spirit. At all. I’m at a loss, folks. Christmas is here. But not the parties, the occasions, the suppers...

Marc Lalonde
Dec 15, 20204 min read


A word (or several hundred) on love
It might be the most powerful force on the planet. It can move mountains, break down walls, make peace, save lives, topple dictatorships,...

Marc Lalonde
Dec 8, 20203 min read


There are things money can’t buy
As I drive around the neighbourhood I live in, I’m stunned, and a little surprised by the cars that circulate when I drop off my children...

Marc Lalonde
Nov 5, 20204 min read


The emotions of teenagerhood can be a minefield, but parents have to step lightly
Without getting too much into specifics, because specifics when it comes to these types of things can be fraught with peril, both legal...

Marc Lalonde
Sep 16, 20203 min read


Sometimes you get what you need
Sometimes in life, pleasant surprises come out of nowhere. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that you will find precisely what it...

Marc Lalonde
Aug 25, 20203 min read


Just climb this one mountain
The mindset of training is incredibly visionary, and incredibly myopic all at once – and you must make good use of both of those to have...

Marc Lalonde
Jul 30, 20203 min read


Pyramids, bloody hands and 'A Month of Sundays' : it's July, after all
The struggle is real. So very real. The re-opening of society is in full bloom in Montreal, sort of. We remain beset by liability...

Marc Lalonde
Jul 15, 20203 min read


Bruce Willis was right about f#$%-ing mayonnaise on hamburgers and other thoughts on pandemic TV
July 13 is the date. Normally, at this time of the year, North American cinemas would be rife with moviegoers and summer blockbuster...

Marc Lalonde
Jul 13, 20203 min read


Transitions in life are tough
In life, I have always struggled with transition times. Whether something is beginning, or something new is ending, I have always found...

Marc Lalonde
Jul 7, 20204 min read


With a return to normalcy, comes a return to bodybuilding
I’m an emotional being. For me, being emotional is like breathing. Something happens to me? My reaction is 100 per cent emotional. I get...

Marc Lalonde
Jul 1, 20203 min read


Without the dark, there can be no light
When I was a kid, I remember extended periods of mind-numbing boredom interspersed with moments of sheer jubilation. There didn’t seem to...

Marc Lalonde
Jun 25, 20204 min read


The light at the end of the tunnel
It has been a brutal 12 weeks for me. It’s been horrendous in many, many ways, not the least of which was my perceived worthlessness and...

Marc Lalonde
Jun 11, 20203 min read


NFL Draft live blog with Cole and Marc
8:15 p.m.Roger Goodell welcomes everyone to a virtual draft. Says he'll miss the hugs and the interactions with fans. Instead, he gets...

Marc Lalonde
Apr 23, 20203 min read


Marc and Cole’s NFL mock draft 2020
Cole and I sat down at the table and tried, as best we could, to predict how the NFL Draft, whose first round will be held tomorrow night...

Marc Lalonde
Apr 23, 20208 min read


A grey, listless pandemic Friday. Can this be the new reality?
Week 2 of the quarantine has come to an end and I don’t even know what to do with myself anymore. Today is Friday, which means I worked...

Marc Lalonde
Apr 3, 20203 min read


Is the United States killing its own population? -- and other thoughts from behind the Q curtain
It makes me feel pretty good to know that Canada is doing all that it can to support its population during this time of self-quarantine...

Marc Lalonde
Apr 1, 20204 min read


Dad jokes, Trump wisdom and another day in paradise...or something
The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is freedom from quarantine, but it;s going to be a while yet. It's day 3 of house arrest, sort...

Marc Lalonde
Mar 25, 20202 min read


Dispatch from behind quarantine lines
My daughter grows more feral in her room every day. She stays there all day and comes out at night, like a teenage vampire, and junk food...

Marc Lalonde
Mar 24, 20202 min read


Catching Coronavirus fever
When we stop to consider what appears to be a worldwide pandemic on a scale the vast majority of humans on the planet have never seen...

Marc Lalonde
Mar 23, 20203 min read
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