Louisa Jane grew up on the farm in Saskatchewan. She studied nursing with her sister. She was her father’s favourite child. She loved white kittens, sweet deserts, and in her youth she had an unnatural craving for potatoes. Her fashion sense was completely lost on me. It wasn’t until we starting digging through old shoe …
Today I cashed in on my birthday present from a week ago: two tickets to the BC Lions Home Game Season Opener. Football season has officially arrived. The first half was a little slow giving Tara opportunity enough to pull out her script and rehearse lines for the Houdini show. Yeah – that just happened. …
For our anniversary this year Tara and I decided to become tourists in our own town. Summer had finally descended on Vancouver, so it was welcoming to get out of the house and enjoy some of that fresh urban air. It was nice to get out of the apartment in general these days since it …
We were the Renfrew Community Tiny Mite City Champions of 1976-1977. We won our championship title in overtime in the final game of a best-of-three series played indoors in a full-fledged hockey area complete with electronic scoreboard and a Zamboni machine. Awesome. As assistant captain, I carried our team to victory with my physical presence …
Vegetables was from the 1st generation of dwarf hamsters that came into our home. The irony is not lost on us that she had a serious stroke in her later months (life expectancy is only 2 years), but managed to bounce back for several good months thereafter. Vegetables grew up in a split-level home with …