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Be A Tourist In Your Own Town

Be A Tourist In Your Own Town

This past week two beautiful, sunny, warm days begged me to take them off and become a tourist in my own town. I learned from visits to two of my other favourite cities, San Francisco and New York, that taking the famous “Hop-On-Hop-Off” bus tour was...
Welcome to Gastown, Part One

Welcome to Gastown, Part One

Blue Jays weekend games start early out here on the left coast. 10 am!  This is seriously cramping my habitual Sunday morning blogging routine! I’m only part way kidding. But I cannot miss an inning of our revamped “all-in” edition of the Jays so...
Roses in December

Roses in December

Author James M. Barrie’s full quote goes as follows: “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” I am thinking about the gift that is memory this Sunday morning, my first back in beautiful British Columbia, and one of my first...
Thank You

Thank You

When you drive down the back roads of Lambton County in the summer, you will come across many places where you will see brilliant, orange Tiger Lilies, or “Ditch Lilies” like the ones in this photo taken at the site of the old S.S. #7 Bosanquet School on...
The Storyteller’s Creed

The Storyteller’s Creed

On a recent work trip, I had the good fortune to drive along one of the most picturesque and rugged highways I’ve ever had the pleasure to travel: The Crowsnest Trail. I traveled the famous #3 from Hope in the west of BC all the way to Cranbrook nearing the...