There are those who would blame the Batman comic, the Batman movie, for inspiring the mass killing in Aurora, Colorado. However, I grew up with…
“I heard that the Toronto zoo might be closed down. How can you do that? It’s Canada’s most important zoo. It’s known for its conservation…
It’s 1924, the Icelanders who arrived in 1875, have now been in Manitoba for 49 years. In1906, the railway has come to Gimli. WWI has…
Some of the Icelanders who came to the West Coast went logging. They came from a country where trees were scrub birch a few feet…
Heritage is a funny sort of thing. It turns up in strange places and in strange ways. Yesterday, I took cousin Dilla and JO for…
When I was a boy, now more than half a century ago, there was a lot of snow. When I’ve said that, I’ve had people…
This past weekend, I attended The 40th Anniversary of the founding of the Weaver‘s and Spinner‘s Guild Exhibit and Sale at the Art Spring Gallery…
I’m going chantrelle picking. That’s one of the joys of living on Vancouver Island. There are lots of chantrelles in the woods. Some people pick…
For the last few weeks, I’ve been following two news stories, the Shafia trial and the sinking of the Costa Concordia, the way teenage girls…
We all do it eventually. Die, that is. Although we have a built in denier, thank goodness, otherwise it would get in the way of…