March 25, 2020 Awoke to a new day today, turned on the news to our PMs bearded face. Same as yesterday, I guess this strange new reality will continue. Pour another cup of coffee and ruminate about the day ahead. Groceries are getting low. Grocery shopping has taken on an ominous overtone. Grab a cart; don’t touch it with the hands, Mom used to give me grief for stretching my sleeves like this. The shopping cart is my defense as Read more…
March 24, 2020 Silence in the mountain was deafening today, it should be full of spring breakers, of kids, of fun, of energy; instead it’s empty. We left again, as if for the last time? I hope that the next time we go to Big White the world will be sane. It won’t be the same, ever, but I hope it will be sane. Coming back into Kelowna things seem normal in many ways. The roads are busy, people Read more…
March 23 2020 Pandemic… sounds very close to panic, and the world is in the throes of it. It was a lifetime ago yet only one week that we left Big White and went home with the ski hill closing and the world imploding. One week; a lifetime and yet the blink of an eye. Fresh air seems fleeting and precious, nothing really has changed, yet everything will never be the same again. Everyone is in shock, denial or in Read more…