The other day, I overheard a couple of guys in a coffee shop talking about their impending retirement. One is about to pack it in at the end of this month, the other hits the magic R-day later this year.Perhaps it was excessive...
Read MoreHaving reached a certain age, I’m grateful for the younger, hipper people in my life who update me up on popular culture.My friend Katie is such a person. She told me about Groupons, longboards, and Snapchat. Long before the...
Read MoreThe golfing season and duck hunting season have something in common. I am convinced that if a person took up both sports their problems would be greatly magnified.I came to this monumental conclusion when I was chasing golf...
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I’ve been living out the season as the idiot to winter and the dunce to darkness. In hindsight, I should have seen it coming.
Read More“The play was inspired by the shooting of a young man named Freddy Villaneuva,” Vancouver-based playwright Omari Newton tells me. “A young man that was apparently unarmed, had no previous criminal record. He got into some kind...
Read MoreIn January 2013 Daniel Adamson first travelled to the Philippines. It was the wish of his sick mother whom Adamson had been looking after for several years.After years of caring for her she wanted him to take a holiday.A Yukon...
Read MoreIt was time to go out for dinner and, since my regular companion was still on the high seas, I invited yet another friend. I was the first to arrive G&P Steakhouse on Main Street. As it was a Monday night, I hadn’t bothered...
Read More“‘…but gracious me! It’s getting light! Good night, old Turnip-top, good-night!’ A nod, and he was gone.”So ends the sixth canto of Phantasmorgia by Lewis Carroll (better known for having written the...
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