I CANNOT IMAGINE a worse nightmare than losing a child. And yet, there it is: accidentally causing it by forgetting to remove the child from the car in hot weather. Sometimes [Continue]
THE NEWS that two personal water crafts collided did not surprise me. I was happy to know that both parties got away with minor injuries, but truth is, the river [Continue]
LAST WEDNESDAY, rain made Peterson Creek burst with the freshest green I’ve seen in a long time. At just past 8am, there were no other people. Just rain-bejewelled leaves, [Continue]
Children don’t need to win all the time. They need to feel challenged OVER THE WEEKEND, our youngest had a karate testing for green belt. He became appropriately [Continue]
I AM BREAKING the rules of local gardening. It is still April yet the patch of garden in the backyard is all dug up, ready to be seeded. I open the big bag of compost manure [Continue]
THE NEWS ABOUT the caribou in the South Selkirks read like a bad joke: only three animals left, all female. If none is pregnant…well, that would be that. It will be 19,000 [Continue]