Take heart, my friends, we have come a long way and have, yet, far to go.

Results for BC Children's Hospital from the Fundraiser held at Black & Blue Tattoo

Today Carol Matthews read from her latest book amongst the displays at the Nanaimo Museum. Her love of the word and the story was evident...

Looks good for the guys down at Black & Blue Tattoo for their second annual fundraiser for the B.C. Children's Hospital.

How I took my blog back and hoped that they would keep ranting...

As someone who often complains about how the world is falling apart and everything on and in it going downhill, I recently made a resolution to pay attention to the things that are decidedly better now than when I was young. Here are some of them: Brewed coffee, instead of the dreadful instant w…

Adrianne and Rick Update us on K.I.D.S....heading off on December 9th for Cambodia and the Burma/Thailand border. Thanks to the kind support already from so many, we will again be able to continue...

Just arrived from a walk in the woods. My dog and I were driving by Morell Sanctuary off of Nanaimo Lakes Road and I had not taken a walk with him for a while. I am so glad that I stopped and breathed...

A recent magazine advertisement touts Subarus as old reliable automobiles, pointing out that there is a very high proportion of old Subarus still on the road. The photo illustrating this ad shows a dashboard with an odometer reading in the two hundred thousands. So why did we take our good old Subar…

What a bunch of nonsense! You buy a Makita or Milwaukee - should be top of the line and I guess they are whatever passes for "top" these days - DeWalt was pretty good a few years ago but somebody in marketing probably figured out that you really do not want to build a durable tool (most sales are gi…