I’ve been writing for years. Here are some of my favourite pieces. I hope you enjoy them!
I just finished reading Charting the Course: Designing B.C.’s health care system for the next 25 years. It’s not a thriller, but it is gripping. It’s worse than I thought. I just finished reading Charting… Read More »CANADA’S HEALTH CARE IS NOT ‘FREE’
Adorable and pit bull are two words I had never thought I’d bead together in a sentence We own the sidewalk, my pal and I. She walks five steps ahead of me, and like a… Read More »LEARNING TO LOVE A PUPPY PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF
I arrived at the restaurant a few minutes before him. As the hostess took my coat, a plan popped into my wicked little head. You know what single people pine for? The benign neglect of… Read More »TALES FROM THE DATING TRENCHES
The stats say I’m not the only one romancing the needle. More people are canning, pickling, knitting and bowl-turning now than in the last 50 years I sewed a button on a jacket the other… Read More »AND SEW IT GOES
Platitudes: I just love ’em. In my darkest hours, I have relied upon the wisdom of Churchill, St. Francis, Eleanor Roosevelt and Herodotus. I’ve also leaned on the words of Loni Anderson, Oprah Winfrey, Bruce… Read More »IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED IN IMPARTING WISDOM, TRY AGAIN
There are things unique to summer alone. You are unlikely to cook anything on a stick over a fire unless it’s summer. These are the only months in which you go grocery shopping with a… Read More »EVERYTHING I KNOW I LEARNED FROM SUNBATHING
Not dames as in Dame Joan Sutherland, the female equivalent of the British title of knight, but dames as in fabulous old gals. You know what the world needs more of? Dames. We’re never in… Read More »A TRIBUTE TO DAMES
How cookies are like sex: Of Triple Double Stuf Oreos and other progress traps. A warning: My mind wanders. If I take my eye off it, my mind can get lost in a souk of… Read More »PROGRESS TRAPS
Why I Miss My Holiday Retail Job You can buy anything you want online. But the internet can’t capture the magic of the Eaton’s perfume counter at Christmas. My doorbell gets a lot of use… Read More »HOLIDAY JOB
I’ve always admired The Salvation Army. Then again, how could you not be fascinated by a movement that was launched by someone who started out in life as a pawn broker? The resolved are at… Read More »HERE’S TO THE SALLY ANN