Cal's Journal

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 hands tell us what our body only guesses at. The passage of time keeps moving on and we live our lives based on the spinning of wheels and gears. In 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 for a second and then released me. Only to grab me again as I let go of the platform I’d been holding. I know better than to push my limits. 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 condominium building. I embraced the thrilling view from three hundred eighty-feet above the glistening Okanagan Lake. The brand new tower is in its finishing touches and the penthouse suite sits 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. It turns out this mysterious ‘they’ had very little to do with cancelling the beloved author of children’s books. Six lesser-known books by the famous writer have been taken out 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 his home. His eyes pushed their lids into the recess, he pushed his dream back into the depths of his mind. He remembered seeing fresh snow in the middle of Read more

Addiction, is it an illness or an affliction? There are all kinds of addictions that people can suffer from. Some are innocent; some seem like no big deal, most forms of addiction cause problems and pain. The worst of addictions cause death. I have some experience with addiction. I would admit that I am addicted to my phone and caught up in many forms of technology. I struggle to battle my addiction to the internet. I fight a daily battle Read more

It was another Monday in the coronaverse. Another Monday in a strange year of Mondays. A year ago the world had a glimpse of a possible future. China was in a lockdown, had been for two months. That kind of thing could never happen in Canada? Could it? Little did we know what would happen only two weeks later. We were having fun, we were carefree people. No worries in the world. Our biggest problem was how much snow would Read more

The Big Boarder smiled at his friends as he pushed away from the top of the Ridge Rocket express. The snow was covering his boots and he looked at his friends as they whooped in delight. It was another day of fresh snow and deep powder. Unexpectedly, Big Boarder and Barrman were back on the slopes. It was a day that they invoked the twenty-centimetre rule. The two friends bailed on work and the so-called real world. They met two Read more

A crisp wind blew across the fourth-floor podium of One Water Street this morning. I looked at the flags fluttering in the breeze. The cool February winds pierced my coat and sucked the warmth from my core. The wind was not helping my plans for the day. My buddy was coming from Vernon. We were going to fish our way from the Hotel Eldorado to the west Kelowna boat launch. Serendipity, my Campion Biltmore, needed to get home. Finally, after Read more