I find myself caught between wanting my kid to grow into a woman and the desire to see her remain a princess forever. She can’t be a princess forever. She will grow up and all I can do is provide her the tools to become a responsible and successful adult. Read more…
It’s official, spring is here. Today at Big White we had every season of the year; except summer. according to the calendar, today was the first day of spring. My friend told me how this was a sad day for him, the days were now longer and ski season was Read more…
The two ski buddies met at the bottom of the Ridge Rocket high-speed quad. Barrman and Cookster smiled beneath their masks as they pushed through the gates for another ski day. It wasn’t just any ski day it was a day to celebrate. Cookster was on his one-hundredth day and Read more…
Barrman awoke to a feeling of anxiety and uncertainty. The world he was living in seemed to be crumbling around him. Time was running out and the world just entered a new vocabulary into everyday life. Social distancing was one of the new terms being used. It all seemed so Read more…
It has been a year of Mondays. Every week has begun with another Monday in the coronaverse. You may ask yourself, why do I pick on Mondays?. Every time it’s a Monday I can’t help but sing the Boomtown Rats song in my head, “I don’t like Mondays.” Mondays can Read more…
Time keeps on flying by in a flash; like a waking dream, life continues its journey onward. We lost an hour in the middle of the night. It was time to spring forward once more. Our clocks are a representation of a myriad of calculations. On timepieces everywhere, the little Read more…
It happened quickly, the pain shot up my back. The agony pierced my body, it felt like a knife had been plunged into my muscle. Anyone who’s had a back injury or even a sore back knows the spot in the lower back. The pain held me in its grasp Read more…
Spring was in full bloom today. It started with a brisk chill in the air but as the sun warmed the earth the air felt fresh and new. A new season was in full bloom in our amazing Okanagan Valley. I stood at the top of the new thirty-six-story high-rise Read more…
“They cancelled Dr. Seuss,” so rang the battle cry. They are cancelling everything. Who is this infamous ‘they’? Why do ‘they’ want to run our lives? Or do they? Did ‘they’ even cancel Dr. Seuss in the first place? I thought I should find out exactly what was going on. Read more…
Barrman’s brain fell deep into strange dreams of a world long past. He struggled to escape the days long ended, dreams of working in Calgary twenty-years-ago. Why, why, why was he haunted by dreams of cleaning windows in the city by the Bow River in Alberta? It was no longer Read more…