Throwback Thursday — Nov. 2, 2017
published in The Richmond Review. Sept. 1998. BC Parent June 1999 The Bottom Line I admit it, I felt self-conscious as I pulled on my spandex pants and headed out the door to my first fitness class. I remember hoping my t-shirt was long enough to cover […]
Throwback Thursday – October 26, 2017
BC Parent July 1999 High Tech Horrors The mantel of my family room fireplace is littered with eight remote controls… count ‘em, eight. Lined up in order of size, I dust them once a week. Don’t ask me what they’re for, some don’t even have batteries. But there they sit in their high tech glory. […]
Throw back Thursday – October 19, 2017
BC Parent Magazine. July 1996 On The Road Again…. for the very first time Everything seems to be going in slow motion as I watch the key enter the ignition switch. Her life passes before my eyes. Sixteen years ago I was laying on the delivery table, pain bending me in half, pushing the […]
Throwback Thursday – October 12, 2017
Back to the fall of 1995. The Vancouver Sun VOICES column Dream Home Lotteries were a new concept – 100 dollars bought a chance to win an upscale house. We splurged and bought a ticket — The Peace Arch and Delta Hospital Foundations are holding a lottery featuring a $649,0000 dream home as first prize. […]
Another Brilliant Idea — maybe
Last Thursday was the final episode of ‘Paw Prints On my Heart’ – the nine post series about the dogs of my past. It felt good to write about each of these friends, to revisit our time together. I’m glad to have their stories up on ‘the cloud’ (wherever that is) – glad that they […]
Unwelcome visitors
There are a pair of flapping crows hanging out in our front yard these days. I don’t know what the attraction is. They seem to have a thing for the hubcaps of my car parked in the driveway. I’ve checked the tires a few times for remnants of road kill but didn’t notice any – […]
Some things are worth the wait
It’s nine o’clock on Saturday morning, outside the sun is shining and I’m inside, pulling the ladder to our attic down from the ceiling in the garage. I’m heading up on a search, I’m armed with a flashlight and a broom. It should be clear sailing through the boxes of Christmas decorations, the bags of […]
Back to school
Tomorrow is the first day of school. Children everywhere will be putting on new outfits and sorting new supplies. There are parents who are celebrating this long awaited event and others who are cursing the day. I was always one who cursed – I loved summer vacation with my kids. The first day of school […]
Best Foot Forward
I hauled out the ironing board and plugged in the iron – I needed to give my volunteer t-shirt the once over before I put it on. I’m a stickler for pressed clothes, even blue jeans (not creased – just pressed, I don’t go completely overboard). God forbid we leave the house looking rumpled. My […]
Where there is smoke…
British Columbia is experiencing an extreme fire season. Vancouver has been socked in with smoke for over a week. People have been complaining about the air quality, the haze in the sky and the smell of smoke for days. We can’t even see the mountains across the river for the blanket of smoke that has […]