The Ottawa Quantified Self meetup is modeled on the Bay Area Quantified Self Show & Tell meetings started in 2008 by Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly in the Bay Area. Your host for the Ottawa meetup will be Artur Denysenko (Twitter @adenysenko). Write me with your recommendations, tips, and observations. This is a regular show and tell for people who take advantage of various personal self-tracking tools and methods to gain more knowledge about themselves, others and the world around them. Come share w …

In 2004  I was diagnosed with Celiac disease and put myself on a mission to create gluten-free food that tasted like the real deal.  In 2011 - after 5 years of teaching g/f cooking and many failures and successes later, I formed the group - "The Joy of Gluten Free".  Originally the group met in my home and we chatted and discussed Celiac issues (outside the normal stuff - things like how you manage family members, diet, other health related issues) and ate dessert - something that was not easily …