This is a long, non-bookish post featuring a lot of pictures of my family and dinosaurs and beautiful scenery. Don't say I didn't warn you. Let's begin. It started with a t-shirt from the thrift store. As many kids do, our oldest, Pearl, went through a dinosaur phase when she was younger. She loved watching… Continue reading Summer 2025 Highlights: Part 3 (Road Trip Edition)
It's mid-February and the rain has returned but we had an absolutely beautiful and sunny January. Maybe it's the Vitamin D I started taking this winter, but even though January felt about 7 weeks long, it didn't feel nearly so dreary as it usually does. We had a family weekend away, booked a hotel in… Continue reading Some 2025 Highlights
Normally I would inundate you with photos of our town's annual Canada Day celebrations. However, this year I forgot my camera at home and took very few pictures. Not such a big deal since the parade is pretty similar every year and it's nice to just enjoy the moment, right? Except this year, Pearl was… Continue reading Canada Day 2019
Crow - Amy Spurway (Goose Lane, 2019) Stacey Fortune has returned home to die. She's crawling back to Cape Breton Island to move in with her mother, her brain riddled with tumours. Her life in Toronto has not turned out exactly how she hoped but she isn't eager to return to Cape Breton either. She's… Continue reading Book Review: Crow by Amy Spurway
The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir - Joseph Auguste Merasty with David Carpenter (University of Regina Press, 2015) With the advent of the Truth and Reconciliation Project in Canada, there has been an increase in stories being told about residential schools. Some of these are oral, some have been written down. There… Continue reading Book Review: The Education of Augie Merasty by Joseph Auguste Merasty with David Carpenter
I can faintly recall, as a child, watching the national news, noticing a lot of talk about fishing out east. The lack of fish, the death of an industry and a lifestyle. It was my own country but very far away and very removed from my own city childhood on the opposite coast. In 1992,… Continue reading Book Review: Our Homesick Songs
...or kids from other countries too. All are welcome! For Canada Day this year I thought I'd share some of our favourite Canadian kids books. The possibilities here are practically endless so I limited myself to the books that are on Pearl and Rose's shelves. Carson Crosses Canada - This is a new one. We… Continue reading Canadian Books for Canadian Kids
Canada Day! Each little community along our Coast has a different occasion they celebrate throughout the summer. Sechelt's is Canada Day. It's the social event of the year around here. Here's a few from the parade: I often think of how fortunate I am to be a Canadian. Through a fluke of birth (even though… Continue reading Canada Day 2014
Yesterday was one of those days. You know what I mean, right? Things just...don't go right. The autumn rains of the Pacific Coast have most definitely arrived. Gumboots, rain jackets, umbrellas. As well as flashlights and candles kept close at hand, due to high winds and our somewhat-remote location. The rain poured down, the lights… Continue reading E.R. – Embarassed Reflections on an Emergency Room Visit
A highlight of the year in this small town is the annual Canada Day parade. This was the third year I got to be in attendance. It starts with some classic cars. You know them because they're the same ones you saw the year before and the year before that or that you've seen driving… Continue reading Sechelt Canada Day Parade 2013
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