It’s just like a book club, only there’s no book and no club.
So, where’s your closest garden centre? Not so close anymore, I bet. Local gardening centres keep vanishing as wide-ranging constraints force massive changes on this industry. Real estate costs have spiraled. Emerging residential zoning champions… Read More »THE SHRINKING GARDEN
What shall we call them? Oversights? Bungles? A preponderance of laxities? You know what I’m talking about: situations where the easy fix is just so very obvious, and yet they persist. In the face of… Read More »WHEN I RULE THE WORLD
You’re not imagining it. Headlights are, indeed, getting stronger. According to some people, so strong that they can be blinding. The problem seems to be that the automotive industry is over-delivering on a selling feature.… Read More »BLINDED BY THE (HEAD)LIGHT
We had spent the day at the park, looking at the sqwacks and sqwans when he went boom, got an owie, resulting in a trip to the hoppitable for snitches. To make everything better, the… Read More »SQWACKS, SQWANS, SOCCER
Who doesn’t love a bargain? I have a membership to the Vancouver Aquarium. Membership pays for itself within two visits. The Aquarium sweetens the pot by adding special features. My membership let me take advantage… Read More »WRONGFULLY TICKETED
It was a weekday afternoon. Unexceptional in many ways, except for that Margaret was spending it in the Emergency department at Vancouver General Hospital. No one likes having to go to Emerg but the smallest… Read More »COP COMMENDATION
Another holiday is approaching. And you know what that means. Another dip into the family gene pool. Relatives! In particular, cousins. Growing up, you had, what? Probably like a dozen cousins, right? Cousins that you… Read More »RELATIVELY REMOVED
You’ll leave the milk out. The basement door wide open. When the call comes, you’ll drop everything and run. Ambulance and mom are words you’d rather never have any association. Such things, however, are inevitable.… Read More »MOM
“Lateness happened to me.” That, I’m told, is the idiomatic expression used by the Japanese when arriving at an appointment later than anticipated. It’s kind of perfect, isn’t it? I mean, the oddest things can… Read More »TIME ZONES – PERSONAL AND GLOBAL
Some things leave a big impression. Some things you remember all your life. You know what really knocked my socks off? The Winged Victory of Samothrace. If you’ve ever been to the Louvre Museum in… Read More »GALLERIES, MUSEUMS AND MORE