Happy Cinco de Mayo. What used to be another day in May has become a Canadian and American excuse for a Mexican holiday. An excellent excuse to drink Tequila and eat tacos. And why not? There is nothing wrong with finding a reason to party. I like Tequila and tacos, Read more
Hockey playoffs have arrived. They are full of surprises. Toronto is in the second round, and Boston isn’t. Who would have predicted that one? The Oilers made it past the first round as well. And my beloved(used to be anyway) Flames are playing golf. And today they fired the coach… Read more
Spring is in the air. Finally. The weather has been warming up all week and the days are getting longer. Time marches on. I find myself trying to keep life busy and my days happy. Yesterday I was on a roof in Penticton and it was beautiful outside. The sun Read more
Four twenty was celebrated in Canada. It is a day that weed smokers everywhere rejoice in the legality of their herbal enjoyment. It wasn’t always that way. If someone had told me ten years ago that Canada would legalize the demon weed, I would have laughed at the thought. Yet Read more
The division still exists. I wanted to think that it was over. With the last gasps of covid19, I thought we could return to a time of sanity. A time like before when we may have disagreed with other people but still respected their right not to agree. That seems Read more
Sixty-two days on skis. Over six hundred times on the chair. Big White treated me right and I had a fantastic ski season—my best season in my life. I hope to have many more. We finished the season off in style. Although we never reached the top of the mountain Read more
Bradley Garret stared, entranced as the bees swarmed toward him. He’d never seen anything like it. In all his years as a beekeeper, the bees were always calm and peaceful. This time they came at him like an organized entity. The bees were out for blood. He had no idea Read more
Mother Nature decided it was a great day to play a joke on everyone. She gave Big White Ski Resort a final day of awesome powder skiing. It was no joke though. It was real, and it was really good. It may not have been a joke but laughs filled Read more
Chapter 2 Greg Malkovich lowered his ropes into place for his next set of windows. A stiff breeze whipped around the edge of the building. His hair blew into his face as he stared at the dark clouds hanging ominously above. Three hundred fifty feet of line dangled below him. Read more
Chapter 1: Out of Control Kamlei stared at the plastic test kit in her hand. Her hands shook as she waited. She felt torn inside. When she missed her time of the month, nervous butterflies swarmed inside her. It was the second test she took, she had to make sure Read more